Mason Cooley Quotes
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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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.
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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.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
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We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.
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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.
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I love a black wedding dress.
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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 -
Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
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Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.
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If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
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During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst.
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Through music, I think we can inspire each other.
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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
