Mason Cooley Quotes
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
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I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings. It's just now with computers that it has reached a new level.
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The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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Life is like a balance sheet, you gain some, you lose some.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
