Ned Vizzini Quotes
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
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I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
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After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.
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While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
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This is my sadness for shooting my friend
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.
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Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.
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Women's tennis has been all over the place the last few years and when you throw in injuries, it's taken on even more of a wild-card dimension.
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The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.
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Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.
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My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
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The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
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Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
