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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Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.
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Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.
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Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
