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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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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.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.
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Men lie all the time.
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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?
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Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
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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.
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Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.
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I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.
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I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.
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Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.
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Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.
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As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
