Ned Vizzini Quotes
I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
Quotes to Explore
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.
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May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?
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To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
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All economic forecasts are subject to considerable uncertainty. There is always a wide range of plausible outcomes for important economic variables, including the federal funds rate.
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I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.
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Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
