I talk and talk and
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
– Mario Cuomo
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- I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo
- Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right. – Mario Cuomo
- I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. – Mario Cuomo
- My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it. – Josefowitz
- Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can’t turn this economy around in three years, I’ll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we’re here to collect! You know the results. It’s been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent. – Mitt Romney
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories. – Ray
- If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. – Mario Cuomo
- He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care. – William Penn
- “How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?”
- My mother used to say, ‘You gotta exercise.’ She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn’t do that. And she taught me to play tennis, taught me to walk and