Mason Cooley Quotes

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

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• I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Love
  • Entertainment
  • Attitudes

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Place
  • Rights
  • View

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Growth
  • India

• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  

  Kate Bush
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Child

• Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Confidence
  • You Can Do It

• The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Group

• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • World
  • Heart
  • Hope

• I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Always
  • Baby
  • Dancing

• Men lie all the time.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Men
  • Lie

• Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Love
  • Genius

• Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Technology

• To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Evil

• One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Work

• Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • People
  • Good
  • Community

• My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

  

  Drew Brees
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Purpose

• Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • America
  • Islam
  • Faiths

• Let the world slide, let the world go;A fig for care, and a fig for woe!If I can't pay, why I can owe,And death makes equal the high and low.

  

  John Heywood
  • World
  • Why
  • High

• An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

  

  Mason Cooley