Stephen Vizinczey Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
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Even when I was in the lead, I was getting too close to the wall, trying to make up time. I drove like I stole it.
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I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.
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I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
