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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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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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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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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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
