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.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• 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
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• 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
  • Work
  • Done
  • Pretty

• 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
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• 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
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• 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.
  • Time
  • May
  • Thought

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• 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
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• 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
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Know
  • Just

• If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • You
  • Create
  • Does

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Kids
  • History

• The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Time

• Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Men
  • Relationship

• Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • People
  • Help
  • Powerful