Mason Cooley Quotes

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Mason Cooley

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Star
  • First
  • Week

• But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Stop

• If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

  

  FKA twigs
  • You
  • Pain
  • Artist

• I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Different
  • Think
  • Kind

• And almost every one when age,Disease, or sorrows strike him,Inclines to think there is a God,Or something very like Him.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • God
  • Age

• Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Personality
  • Famous
  • Partner

• Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Children
  • Blessed

• My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

  

  Douglass North
  • California

• For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Sad

• Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

  

  Dizzy Dean
  • Son

• We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • History
  • Health
  • Technology

• Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Truck

• If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf

• All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Spirit
  • Meditation
  • Realization

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Magic

• I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • Up
  • Food
  • Ghetto

• 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Ghetto