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For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
Mario Cuomo
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Mario Cuomo
Age: 82 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 15
Died: 2015
Died: January 1
Baseball Player
Former Governor Of New York
Lawyer
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Jamaica
Queens
Mario Matthew Cuomo
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We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
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