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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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
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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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The people change, the common denominator is you.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.