Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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I stay in my pajamas until I have to leave for work.
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You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.
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We need to go beyond saying, 'I know what these games do because I see my son playing them,' and try to understand the complexities - that different video games have different effects.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
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Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
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Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
