Yael Cohen Quotes
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I want to play interesting women.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
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Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.
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How do you support someone with cancer? How do you ask for the help you need?
