Ned Vizzini Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
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I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
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Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.
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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
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Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
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There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child.
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I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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He who would love much has also much to suffer.
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And when you say the truth you get stronger.
