Cohen Quotes

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

(Sen. Richard Cohen (DFL-St. Paul), who authored legislation calling for inflation to again be considered in state budget projects, was less tactful.) We knew that if you don`t budget for inflation it will catch up with you, ... Three dollars a gallon for gas was not predictable, but rising costs were certainly predictable. We had an ostrich-buries-his-head-in-the-sand approach to the budget because we were trying to get through the session without admitting we had to raise taxes.

Cohen introduced legislation forcing Temple to drop their legal battle against the student union.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

Summer: `Yeah, got 10 bucks.` Seth: `What are you doing?` Summer: I` know you`re afraid, Cohen.` Seth: `Yeah, that you`re going to fall, don`t go up there.` Summer: `What your break-up is missing is a key ingredent. The only ingredient, really.` Seth: `Which is?` Summer: `That you don`t love me anymore.` Seth: `Summer...` Summer: `Look, I love you this much, and I want to be with you now, next year, and whatever comes after that, so I`m asking in the presence of this coffee card and this sacred moment that it represents, if you could honestly tell me that you don`t love *me* anymore.....` (pause) Seth: `Summer I.....` Summer: `Just say it, Cohen. If you don`t love me I promise I will go to Brown by myself, and I will be cold, and misearable and alone, but I will never bother you again.` (pause) Seth: `I don`t love you anymore!` Summer: (heartbroken) `Oh my God....` Seth: `Summer.....` Summer: `Just get away from me....., get out of here Cohen!` (Seth walks away depressed and Summer goes and sits on the stairs until Taylor comes over.) Taylor: `I`m so sorry.....` Summer: `I got to go to detention.`