Mason Cooley Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
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My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
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My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.
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I love to conduct opera.
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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We're always looking for the best people that apply and have showed interest about being on the Big Brother show. In the past, other houseguests' siblings have approached us or applied, and in some cases it works out like Elissa [Reilly Slater] and in some cases it doesn't. We want to make sure we have the best people ultimately.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
