Ned Vizzini Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
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We saw that our customers required help beyond the data sets they had and that they could benefit from a wider opinion. So we built SurveyMonkey Audience, and we've now got 4 million users who signed up to take surveys. Our clients can choose the demographic they want to hear from, and we can provide that sample.
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I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.
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First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
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I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face.
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My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
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I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.
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Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.
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The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
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We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources - and, crucially, the candid feedback - that are required to transform the first wisps of a story into a truly compelling film.
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
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I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse.
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There is no crisis at all between the European Union and Israel. If there was a crisis, we would not be here.
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The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
