Wendy C. Ortiz Quotes

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

Wendy C. Ortiz

• Writing
• Mother
• Relationship
• Complicated

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• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
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• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
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• I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

  

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• My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Great
  • Done
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• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
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• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
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• The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Nuclear Power

• You want to win the games, to win trophies.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Want
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• I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

  

  Verite
  • Small
  • Lost
  • Day

• My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.

  

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  • Job
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  • Day

• I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

  

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• Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

  

  Patricia Richardson
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• It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.

  

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  • Overcome
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• Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • People
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• The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  

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• I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

  

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• He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

  

  David Hume
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• If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

  

  William Lewis Safir
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  • Writing
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• I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Dream

• I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • American
  • Water

• In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

  

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  • Forest

• My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

  

  Wendy C. Ortiz
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Relationship