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William S. Cohen Quotes

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

William S. Cohen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 28, 1940

Topics

World Place Holocaust Dangerous Been

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

Joe Scarborough

Past School High School Want High

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

Hate People Play Way Some People

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

Path Yourself Child Me Start Down

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

John Henrik Clarke

Action Long Place Audience Japanese

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Michael Jackson

Truth Lie People Story Care Judge

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick

Learning Fear Children Mistake Think

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

Life Laugh Long You Go Way

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

Happy Know Knowing Always Difficulty

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

Love Poet Who I Love Sharon

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Freedom More Mean Ask Right Little

I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

Music People Artist Say More Just

Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information, or about what you can fit on a CD. With a microwave radio transmitter, you could beam that amount of information into space in a few minutes, and have it travel to anyone at light speed.

Light Travel Space Speed Information

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