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.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
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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.
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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?'
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
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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.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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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.
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For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.
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If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
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The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
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I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.
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We're going to have another rude awakening, a war or depression where people are going to have to value one another again and not value money and winning alone. On the political environment we now have a President who likes winning and money and he represents aspects of the spectacle we were alluding to, and yet he's my President and I am for anyone who is my President. I'm an American and yet it's the style thing. We’ll see what happens. He’d like to see things work well and trying to get us to that place as a country.
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I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
