I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.


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In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drift...
MARIO CUOMO
When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick ...
MARIO BALOTELLI
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I...
MARIO LEMIEUX
I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
MARIO DRAGHI
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make del...
MARIO BATALI
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, t...
MARIO CUOMO
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. ...
MARIO PUZO
I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete agai...
MARIO ANDRETTI
We got some real good looks
MARIO ANDRETTI
Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat.
MARIO ANDRETTI
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
MARIO ANDRETTI
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
MARIO ANDRETTI
It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big ...
MARIO BALOTELLI
I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies.
MARIO GABELLI
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Can...
MARIO BOTTA
Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.
MARIO MONTI
Every day is a great day for hockey.
MARIO LEMIEUX
I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
MARIO ANDRETTI
If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead ...
MARIO BALOTELLI
In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along ...
MARIO CANTONE
I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you...
MARIO BATALI
Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. G...
MARIO CANTONE
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun...
MARIO BATALI
I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I...
MARIO LEMIEUX
I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise ...
MARIO LEMIEUX
[The] statement is premature considering that no impartial investigation had been conducted wherein ...
MARIO BAUTISTA
A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.
MARIO LEMIEUX
Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in th...
MARIO DRAGHI
Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it wi...
MARIO DRAGHI
In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expendit...
MARIO DRAGHI
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good t...
MARIO BATALI
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
MARIO BUATTA
I started to train in economics, and I hated it. I never really entered that world, and went to a co...
MARIO BATALI
Cooking in France and Italy has a particular high resonance, and it's hard to say how or why it deve...
MARIO BATALI
I guess the success of selling this kind of food to New Yorkers is that to them it seems new. Servin...
MARIO BATALI
The Food Network is getting a little more entertaining than I would have thought a couple years back...
MARIO BATALI
I like the history of the Daytona 500. It's like the Kentucky Derby of car racing.
MARIO BATALI
My partner, Joe, spends a lot of his time in Italy and has grown up in an Italian family, but it's m...
MARIO BATALI