Mario Cuomo Quotes
Do you blame me, ladies and gentlemen, for being reluctant to deliver to them the message that is traditional on commencement day?Mario Cuomo
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White -
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
Omar Epps -
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
My mom could be pretty strict.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
Ralph Lauren -
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Caitlyn Jenner
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Karl A. Menninger -
Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
Daniel Boulud -
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. Henry
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Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.
Sam Harris -
I love proving people wrong and proving my supporters right. This is all fun and games to me. I love it. I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I’m grateful every single day.
Conor McGregor -
The air which is struck with most swiftness by the movable thing is compressed to the greatest degree in itself.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
Ashley Wagner -
And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
Dana Rohrabacher
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What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
David Baker -
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph Ellison -
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.
Alicia Keys -
Do you blame me, ladies and gentlemen, for being reluctant to deliver to them the message that is traditional on commencement day?
Mario Cuomo