Mason Cooley Quotes
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreesen
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid
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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
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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
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
Kara Walker
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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
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
Vachel Lindsay
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I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.
Zac Efron
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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
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The reality is, we don’t want our kids to be smart. We want them to be like us. Only more so.
Jack McDevitt
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Rod privately suspected the Scots studied their speech off duty so they’d be unintelligible to the rest of humanity.
Larry Niven
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
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Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
Armand Hammer
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I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'
John Wesley
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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
Vita Sackville-West
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley
