Mason Cooley Quotes
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
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There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.
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Rue Froidevaux seemed to go on forever, as if the distances stretched to infinity.
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Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.
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'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'
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Objections to religious mysticism lose their force if they can equally be turned against natural mysticism.
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Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against scepticism and against dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and always will be: 'On to God!'
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
