Stephen Vizinczey Quotes
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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When you have a good idea, the money flows.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is.
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Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.
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Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
