Mason Cooley Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
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Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy." -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196
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No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
