Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
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You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
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Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.
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I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
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The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.
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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.
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I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
