Mason Cooley Quotes
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Dan Quisenberry
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
Vanessa Paradis
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
Garry Hynes
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
Said Nursi
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I get a great high from writing.
Walter Hill
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
Nathan Myhrvold
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
Salman Rushdie
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
Manny Farber
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
Madison Smartt Bell
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
Andre Balazs
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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
Seth Godin
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If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury
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Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.
Bill Madlock
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
Albert Einstein
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Mason Cooley
