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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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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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 love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.
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My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
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I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
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It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.
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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
