Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
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My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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I'll always have something to prove.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
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I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.
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It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
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Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'
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You might think my chosen career would lend me insight…. But while I can tell you about the brain as a physical object…, beyond that I am a glorified techie. I know the nuts and bolts and can diagnose flaws within the mainframe. While I can identify and sometimes fix structural maladies within that organ, I do not remotely understand it. That is an impossible task, like trying to guess the path rainwater will take down a windowpane. There is simply no way to know with any accuracy what is happening inside someone else’s head. I only faintly comprehend what is going on inside my own.
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There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.
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I am not a nostalgic person.
