Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
I was paralyzed for so long by people's opinions. I would be devastated to the point where I didn't know if I could make it through the day.

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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.
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I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.
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Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
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Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
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I was paralyzed for so long by people's opinions. I would be devastated to the point where I didn't know if I could make it through the day.