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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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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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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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
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Take Ernie Els. He plays in every country. You see his name everywhere. He's received in different parts of the world. It's a good experience.
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I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
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I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.
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People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
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When you're tired, you say, 'Hey, I need to rest from tennis or something.'
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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.
