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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Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
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When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.
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The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
