John Mason Good Quotes

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

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• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Today
  • Legal

• I do tend to overdo everything.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Tend
  • Overdo

• The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Hurt
  • Economy
  • Taxes

• Little Zac had it easy – but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Life
  • Business
  • Think

• Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Look
  • Orange

• In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Hope
  • Always
  • Better

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Wer keine Blume mehr liebt, dem ist alle Liebe und Gottesfurcht verloren.

  

  Ludwig Tieck

• Our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Support

• Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • Single
  • Water
  • Summer

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.

  

  Charlie Sykes

• I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

  

  Angie Martinez

• You know, you can only lead them from behind.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Art

• A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Action
  • Belief
  • Intention

• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• 'The gods are on the side of the stronger,' according to Tacitus. The prophets proclaimed that the heart of God is on the side of the weaker. God's special concern is not for the mighty and the successful, but for the lowly and the downtrodden, for the stranger and the poor, for the widow and the orphan.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Heart

• As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Fans
  • Teammates
  • Counts

• When you go on your phone to check what time it is, you get so distracted. It happens to me every day. 'Oh, I just wanted to see what time it is, but now I'm magically on a panda video.' This is the easier way, but it's also a part of your personal style. It ends up becoming a part of who you are, and representing what you love.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Style

• Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

  

  John Mason Good