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

• The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

  

  Gary Hume
  • School
  • Art
  • Going

• 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

• Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • Technology

• People think that celebrities are this untouchable thing, and they forget that we're people with emotions and feelings. They don't realize that it affects us when they comment on pictures on Instagram or Twitter, saying mean things, just as it would affect anybody.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Emotions
  • Pictures

• Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

  

  Anwar Robinson
  • People
  • Music
  • Popular

• I've been to a lot of photo shoots, and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Work
  • Healthy
  • Shoot

• I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Remember
  • Surprises
  • Photo

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

  

  Mason Cooley