Mason Cooley Quotes
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
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'If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...'
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
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Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
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Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
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Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
