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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Years

• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Partner

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Giving
  • Picture
  • Key

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• 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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Family
  • Team
  • English

• 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.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• 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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• 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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Important
  • School

• 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.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Money
  • Book
  • Years

• When you have a good idea, the money flows.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Good
  • Money
  • Idea

• I can't hide my feelings.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Feelings
  • Hide

• The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

  

  C. S. Forester

• 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.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Country
  • Free
  • Evil

• 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.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Money
  • Together
  • Evil

• Leave us to our free election.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Election

• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Come

• When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

  

  Mechai Viravaidya
  • Nature
  • Learning
  • Forever

• Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Education
  • Learning

• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  

  Arthur Evans
  • Character
  • Learning
  • Habits

• Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

  

  Stephen Vizinczey
  • Learning
  • Stupidity
  • Fortifies