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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
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My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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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.
