Mason Cooley Quotes

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

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• I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Work
  • Never
  • Everything

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

  

  Edie Falco
  • Great
  • Love
  • Reading

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dignity

• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • School
  • Drama
  • TV Shows

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

  

  Barry Schuler
  • Difference
  • Equal
  • U.S.

• I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Fun
  • Broken
  • Working

• We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Week

• I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Care
  • Point
  • Where

• Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Nation
  • Immigrants
  • Our

• Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Care
  • Meat
  • Cheese

• It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Real
  • Season

• The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Long

• I am the angel of reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Door
  • Angel

• Those who believe that racial preferences can help to 'even the score' display, and reinforce, a manner of thinking about race that was the source of the injustice and that will, if it endures within our society, be the source of more injustice still.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Help

• At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

  

  Ray Davies The Kinks
  • Time
  • Important

• It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Live
  • Free

• It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story 'The Great Orley Farm Case.' But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, - Orley Farm.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Work
  • Great
  • True

• I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Help
  • Progress

• Self-reform is the only kind that works.

  

  Mason Cooley