Stephen Vizinczey Quotes
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
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And your work reflects a tradition that runs through our history - a belief that we’re greater together than we are on our own. And that’s what I’ve come here to talk about today.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
