"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."

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Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

Mario Cuomo

#Past Quotes #Reality Quotes #Feet Quotes

“The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.”
“If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.”

Source : Deborah Davis (2004). “Strapless”, Penguin
“It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.”
“Ive always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.”
“You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.”
“The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.”
“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.”
“You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.”

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