Ned Vizzini Quotes
I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back ... I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
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'It's a gift!' he said. He was referring to his art, and also to the result; but he was using the word quite literally.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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After Notre Dame, what is there?
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As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
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People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
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Strength is weakness rearranged, a rope plaited from grass.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.
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God help those who do not help themselves.
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Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back ... I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face
