Mason Cooley Quotes

A blocked path also offers guidance.

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• If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Will
  • Hollywood
  • I Can

• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Society
  • Justice

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • School
  • Hair
  • Anger

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Choice

• I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Sure

• The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Kind
  • Creative

• Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Night
  • Reach

• But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Matter

• I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Wisdom

• Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Why
  • Home

• Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Men
  • Hair

• When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Man
  • Woman

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Mind
  • Judgment
  • Butterfly

• If there is anything worth serving, it's this love. If there is anything worth being, it's this love. If there is anything worth talking about it's this love. If there is anything of real value it's this love.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • Real
  • Love
  • Value

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• A blocked path also offers guidance.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Path