Mason Cooley Quotes
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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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.
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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.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
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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.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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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.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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I get a great high from writing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.
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Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.
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Americans are so egocentric.
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Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
