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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I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.
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Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
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I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.
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After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.
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... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
