Mario Cuomo Quotes
I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.
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I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.
