Ned Vizzini Quotes
I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.
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A banker is a man who will lend you money if you can prove to him that you don't need it.
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I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
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I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.
