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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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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One of my favourite scents in the world is the 'Brown' candle from Hotel Costes in Paris. It smells like naughty nights in corners of clubs.
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It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in.
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'Time was,' he said, 'when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.'
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Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.
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Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
