Mario Cuomo Quotes
I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.
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The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don't know.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
