Ned Vizzini Quotes
I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
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I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
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I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
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[We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore.
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I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.
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I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
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hHave used it in a highly offensive way and drenched it in fallacious, right-wing “Christian nation” pseudohistory. Worse, they've sponsored “Christians only” prayer events that exclude millions of Americans. And by “Christians” they mean fundamentalists. Progressive Christians like me got nowhere near the microphone.
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I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.
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I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
