Ned Vizzini Quotes
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
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I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
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I never complain: 'Oh, I have to go to the hospital and get platelets.' No. It's just something you have to do, so why complain about it?
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If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.
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I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to keep pushing it.
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I think it's so important to practice what you preach - whether you're into riding cows to work or eating a burger after boxing, just do what you're telling your fans you're doing because you have to be real with them because they look up to you.
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I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
