Mason Cooley Quotes

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

Mason Cooley

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Stop
  • Perfect
  • Language

• Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Middle East
  • Singapore

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Done
  • Education

• Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Service
  • Years
  • Been

• In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • America
  • You

• Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dead
  • Witch
  • Wicked

• The mind is just another muscle.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mind
  • Just
  • Another

• Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Women
  • Power

• What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Want
  • Give

• The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Moment
  • Year

• The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Play
  • Dance
  • Audience

• Physically, however, the body is quite able to completely regenerate itself as it approaches old age. Indeed, a quite legitimate second puberty is possible, in which the male’s seed is youthfully strong and vital, and the woman’s womb is pliable and able to bear . . . Now,

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Age
  • Strong

• You are as like the forming of God as ever people were... you are at the edge of promises and prophecies.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God

• I'm still the same. Take the fight against terrorism: after the attacks of September 11, I was the first to side with US President [George W.] Bush. And now, after the attacks in Paris, I have done the same with the President of France,[Oliver] Hollande. Terrorism threatens us all.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Done
  • President
  • September

• Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

  

  David Crystal

• Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

  

  Mason Cooley