Elaine Equi Quotes

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

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• Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Up
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• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
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• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Done
  • Small

• What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Important
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• I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Mind
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• I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

  

  Adele
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• We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Up
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• I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Different
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  • Care

• Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Mistake

• I want to be the girl with the most cake.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Girl
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• There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Life
  • Years
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• Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Live
  • She
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• Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

  

  Ellis Peters
  • World
  • Fly
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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Beauty
  • Ugliness
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• Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

  

  Nagarjun

• I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Want
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• Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Up
  • Remember
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• Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Name
  • Read
  • Speed

• You think of rock ‘n’ roll and you think of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, You think of tons of strippers and mounds of cocaine and people destroying hotel rooms and stuff like that. But none of that happens with us. At least not yet, We’ve destroyed dressing rooms…but it was with fruit.

  

  Chris Kilmore Incubus
  • Sex
  • Drugs
  • Rock N Roll

• I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Speed
  • Drugs
  • Opiates