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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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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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'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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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 just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
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For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
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It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
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I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.
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All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
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I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.
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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.
