Mario Cantone Quotes

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

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• There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Myself
  • Moving
  • Race

• The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Time
  • Food
  • Talk

• It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Character
  • Chicago
  • Fan

• Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • American
  • Song
  • Past

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • School
  • High
  • City

• Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Progress

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Alone
  • Wise

• For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War
  • Brave

• Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Different
  • Relationship

• Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.

  

  Kerris Dorsey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mom

• I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Work
  • Running
  • Son

• It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • People
  • Up
  • House

• Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

  

  Kesha
  • Friends

• By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Albums

• If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Running
  • Stop

• We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Time

• I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.

  

  Peter Falk

• I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

  

  Mario Cantone
  • Rude