Mason Cooley Quotes
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
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Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real.
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I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.
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You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
