Mason Cooley Quotes

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Mason Cooley

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• My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Fire

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Me
  • Finding
  • Not Knowing

• My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

• More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Name

• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Me
  • Blessing
  • Evolution

• There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Great
  • America
  • Suffering

• I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • School
  • City
  • Teacher

• In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

  

  Gary Wright
  • India
  • Trip
  • Invited

• Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Find

• I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Culture
  • You
  • Chinese

• Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • People
  • Body
  • Torture

• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe

• I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Space

• Now it feels like no one ever left me out in the rain, cold words still remain unspoken.And I never got lost, spent years in the dark.You're here, now my heart's unbroken.When I see you smile, fill my soul again, and I'm unbroken.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• Evil has only the power we give it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Giving
  • Evil

• I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

  

  Mason Cooley