Mario Cuomo Quotes
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?Mario Cuomo
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
J. B. Pritzker -
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
Rachel Kushner -
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow -
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps -
I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
Natasha Little -
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright -
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
Mahmoud Abbas -
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Eckhart Tolle
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde -
I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
Karrine Steffans -
People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
Laura Harrier -
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller -
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers -
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do
William Zinsser -
I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.
Chamath Palihapitiya -
Like coming for a living.
Laurence Olivier -
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock -
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.
Susie Bright -
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
Mario Cuomo