Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.
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The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
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My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.
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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
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I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
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I like cooking the biggest steaks. It cooks nice and evenly when it's that thick, and you're not eating the whole thing yourself, which is nice. You get to share that with a companion.
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Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.
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Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
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From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
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It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.
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I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.
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God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.
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I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.
