James Coco quotes

“When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.”
-- James Coco

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“Dying is such a waste of good health.”
-- James Coco

Source : "Fictional character: Sancho Panza, Cervantes' Manservant". "Man of La Mancha", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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“When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.”
-- James Coco

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“I'm not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!”
-- James Coco

“I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!”
-- James Coco

Source : "Fictional character: Inspector Milo Perrier". "Murder by Death", 1976.

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”

Source : 'The Universal Prayer' (1738)

“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.”

Source : "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

“Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.”

“The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.”

“I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.”