Anthony Mason Quotes

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Nature
  • Never

• Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Boy
  • Old

• It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Past
  • Best

• I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Time
  • Good
  • Brother

• I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Find
  • Working

• The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • True
  • Goal

• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Treat

• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

  

  James Wolk
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Comedy

• From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Country
  • Black
  • Christian

• Man knows that love is, but not what it is.

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg

• You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Rest

• Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

  

  Anthony Mason
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Wishing