Mason Cooley Quotes
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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Big business has no party and never shall have.
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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
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Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
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I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
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Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
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If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
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How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
