Mason Cooley Quotes
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
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I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.
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I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.
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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
