My intention is to make sure that we think about it without becoming too intellectual about it. There are pockets of restaurateurs throughout our country right now and in Italy, France, and Spain, who spend all their days figuring out how to confound the customer.


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I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the rec...
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Every man measures his own greed.
MARIO PUZO.
One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...
MARIO PUZO
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
MARIO PUZO
Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...
MARIO PUZO
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
MARIO PUZO
Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every ...
MARIO PUZO
Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him...
MARIO PUZO
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
MARIO CUOMO
Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in...
MARIO BALOTELLI
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursui...
MARIO ANDRETTI
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit...
MARIO ANDRETTI
We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our ...
MARIO LEMIEUX
Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.
MARIO CANTONE
There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got ...
MARIO TESTINO
There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a...
MARIO ANDRETTI
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced ...
MARIO CUOMO
Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be ...
MARIO TESTINO
Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
MARIO CUOMO
Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really wha...
MARIO ANDRETTI
How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions o...
MARIO GABELLI
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
MARIO TESTINO
A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,
MARIO PUZO
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a young...
MARIO MONTI
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impa...
MARIO MONTI
A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the...
MARIO CUOMO
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, th...
MARIO CUOMO
The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We...
MARIO CUOMO
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view...
MARIO GABELLI
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
MARIO CANTONE
But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And ...
MARIO PUZO
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gif...
MARIO PUZO
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
MARIO PUZO
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
MARIO PUZO
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
MARIO PUZO
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
MARIO PUZO
I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.
MARIO TESTINO
The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you durin...
MARIO ANDRETTI
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
MARIO PUZO
Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French ...
MARIO MONTI