Adam Cohen Quotes

There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

Adam Cohen

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My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

Jennifer Gilmore

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When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

Andy Murray

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Rudyard Kipling

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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Mary Oliver

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I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

Minnie Driver

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We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

Josiah Strong

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I would never presume to give anyone advice.

Anne Meara

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I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

Susan Orlean

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Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

Paul Weyrich

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My job is to represent working people.

Sharan Burrow

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