Ned Vizzini Quotes
The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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The tours are campaigns.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.
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What makes me unique is that I'm normal.
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Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
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You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.
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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
