Mason Cooley Quotes
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
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This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
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It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.
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People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
