Mason Cooley Quotes
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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'Westworld' is going to be incredible, and the production line is amazing. That was really nice because Lisa Nolan, who is in charge there, is fabulous and is a great example of a woman doing that role. So that was great, and she's amazing - an incredible writer and fantastic to work with.
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I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.
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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
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How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.
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If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:A thousand critics shouting: 'He's unknown!'
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I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
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You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
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Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.
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Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
