Ned Vizzini Quotes
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
Bear Grylls -
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.
Barry Ritholtz -
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?
Fatema Mernissi -
That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
Clotilde Hesme -
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.
Dave Goldberg -
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
Claude Chabrol
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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.
Kevin Hart -
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.
Drew Barrymore -
I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.
Kunal Nayyar -
Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.
Marge Schott -
The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
John Jay Hooker -
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.
Ed Catmull
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
John Deacon Queen -
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.
Douglas Engelbart -
p. 162-3 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
Charles Edward Merriam -
The abstract human mind will have to receive the intended impression by its own means. I always confine myself to expressing the universal, that is, the eternal (closest to the spirit) and I do so in the simplest of external forms, in order to be able to express the inner meaning as lightly veiled as possible.
Piet Mondrian -
It was a bad day for love.
Daniel Handler -
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
Margaret Millar
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His heart beating faster, his throat drying, Nabby whispered to the driver, ‘Not so bloody fast.’ ‘Tuan?’ ‘All right, all right.’ One of these days he must really get down to the language. There never seemed to be the time, somehow....
Anthony Burgess -
I never thought people would be remotely interested in my silly little life, but I'm really glad that they are.
Kristian Nairn -
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.
Adrian Rogers -
It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
Ned Vizzini