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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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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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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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
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It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.
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It is really a euphemism for asking the man, 'how are you going to decide particular cases that I care about? It is a kind of smoke screen for asking that question.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
