Mason Cooley Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I am a Zionist.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
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Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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I don't have a favorite medium; I was brought up on TV. so I am clearly of the TV generation, but it depends on what you are trying to sell; sometimes a fully integrated solution, sometimes a pure Internet solution, sometimes a pure billboard solution.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
