Mason Cooley Quotes
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.
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I would always want printed books.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.
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There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
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I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vision - I didn't really have peripheral vision or see the world and what was happening. I'm much more worldly, and I believe that I'm much more grounded in my body than I probably was when I was younger.
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A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
