Mason Cooley Quotes
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.
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I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
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That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.
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I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
