Vincent Piazza Quotes
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Women just love to shop.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
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People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often say they did it for themselves. In one case, a hero said that the cost of not doing it is so great, the sense of shame, when he knew that he was strong enough, that the fear of not doing anything was more frightening than the fear of dying.
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As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
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What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
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A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
