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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When I look back on my career, like I said earlier, I had some mammoth footsteps to follow in my father, my Uncle Bobby and my family.
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Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
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I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.
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I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
