Mason Cooley Quotes
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We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
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I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
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Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
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If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
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Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
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Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.
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Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
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This next piece is called 'Sonnet 155', or 'If Shakespeare Had Written a Porn', and it goes like this:
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I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.
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I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.
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Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.
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Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
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Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.
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Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
