Mason Cooley Quotes
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
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I'm sort of a slob.
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The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
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The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.
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I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?
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'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.
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Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
