Mason Cooley Quotes
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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I carry a lot of muscle easily.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
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I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
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Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.
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I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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I believe you've got to do your due diligence.
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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
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Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.
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When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.
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I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
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If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.
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What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.
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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
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Folly always knows the answer.
