Mario Cuomo Quotes
I've been taking a closer look at these graduates. They are actually taller, stronger, smarter than we were, smart enough maybe to take our mistakes as their messages, to make our weaknesses their lessons, and to make our example - good and not so good - part of their education.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.
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I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
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If you're so tired we can order an ice cream cake, we can have it delived to the stage.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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I've been taking a closer look at these graduates. They are actually taller, stronger, smarter than we were, smart enough maybe to take our mistakes as their messages, to make our weaknesses their lessons, and to make our example - good and not so good - part of their education.
