Stephen Vizinczey Quotes
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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You have to promote yourself; you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!
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I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.
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I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.
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I have a man cave somewhere in California - a totally undisclosed location where manly things occur. There are motorcycles, there are secret doors and passageways. Women are welcome, but they must knock.
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I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.
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So softly death succeeded life in her,She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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The details of which candidate said what during a single televised debate in October 1960 could have given the electoral victory to Nixon instead of to Kennedy, but no details of who said what could have blocked the European conquest of Native Americans.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
