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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But I think we need the international market.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
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I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.
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When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.
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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
