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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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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'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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We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain,We do not remember the red roots whence we rose,But we know that we rose and walked, that after a whileWe shall lie down again.
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Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.
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The way in which you accomplish your goals and help your customers needs to be very flexible depending upon how those customers are reacting in real time.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
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In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.
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The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
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I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
