Ned Vizzini Quotes
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.
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I have more nuclear physicists living in my district than in any other district.
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The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period.
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I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.
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Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.
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Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.
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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
