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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Nice goes much further than mean.
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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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Predisposition is not predestination.
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.
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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.
