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Andrew Cuomo Quotes

When you become president, they don't give you a magic wand that you wave. You have to get legislation passed. You have to get agencies to run programs.

Andrew Cuomo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 6, 1957

Topics

Wave Magic You Run Become President

I started out in the 1940s, singing around the clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle 'Caldonia' Young - she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia.

Jimmy Scott

Woman Singing Song Young She Out

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

Joanna Lumley

Good Night Book End Friends I Can

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

Knowledge Time Wind Direction Enough

I've always been a huge Tupac fan, and I often listen to him for inspiration or when I'm stuck.

Angie Thomas

Listen Inspiration Him Always Been

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Jean Harlow

Lie You Down Dogs Up Get

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell.

Simon McBurney

Beautiful Hell Doing You Know Want

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Rita Dove

Thought Years Whisper Poem Many

Sunday, there's not a lot of structure. I might spend an hour thinking about why I don't exercise, and feeling very guilty about not exercising. I tried running, over 10 years ago. It didn't really take.

Roz Chast

Thinking Exercise Guilty Sunday Why

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy

Experience Prayer Blessings Ask Us

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

Mick Foley

Loved Younger Steve Steve Martin

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

Jon Cryer

Say Critics Things Horrible Agree

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

Dita Von Teese

Women Time Feel Look I Can Want