Ned Vizzini Quotes
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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Everybody grows but me.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
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Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
