Mason Cooley Quotes

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

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• I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Want
  • Actress
  • Only

• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Strength
  • Run

• For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • History
  • Poetry

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Decision

• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Character
  • War
  • Peace

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Know
  • Never
  • Potential

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Free
  • Ego
  • Actions

• You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Look
  • Try
  • Employer

• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Free
  • Fall
  • Foundation

• We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fighting

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Country
  • Done
  • Journalism

• I love a black wedding dress.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Black
  • Wedding
  • Dress

• Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Job
  • Free

• Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Monster

• If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Change
  • Health
  • Moral

• A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Proud
  • Silly

• And they thought that what had happened before was past and, in order to live quietly, they placed a stone on top of it, and so, without knowing it, they continued it, they were immersed in the things of before, and we kept them inside us, too.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Knowing
  • Inside
  • Immersed

• All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Men
  • Love

• There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.

  

  Yaacov Agam
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Serious

• It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

  

  Mason Cooley