Ned Vizzini Quotes
She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
Quotes to Explore
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
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We wanted to pick individuals who did have unique experiences and unique backgrounds.
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Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
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You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.
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She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
