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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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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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.
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.
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Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
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Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
