Mario Cuomo Quotes
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
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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.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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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.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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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?
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It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.
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We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.
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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
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I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.
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I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything.
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Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
