Mason Cooley Quotes

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Acting
  • Historian
  • Confusing

• But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

  Ovid
  • Oil
  • Clean
  • Bright

• I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Football
  • Care
  • Easy

• We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Morning
  • Same
  • Media

• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Think
  • Political

• I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Theatre

• You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Crush

• I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Think
  • Girl

• At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Small

• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  

  Annie Dillard

• The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Personality

• I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Good
  • She

• I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Great
  • Men
  • American

• No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Question

• Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

  

  David Pye
  • Design
  • Improvisation
  • Provisional

• You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.

  

  Jaimoe
  • Song
  • Band

• I'm a big fan of Fetty Wap.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign

• Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Lives
  • Human Heart

• There's a reason why Jules Verne chose the place where the glacier was, where we start to descend into the center of the earth. That area specifically has magical powers and people come to this place from all over the world. I actually think that's true of all Iceland. I think it's so special, apart from the water and air being so clean.

  

  Anita Briem
  • Center
  • Magical
  • Iceland

• Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

  

  Mason Cooley