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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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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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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I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
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I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.
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Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
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Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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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.
