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.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.
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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,'
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I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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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.
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I want to be the girl with the most cake.
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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.
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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."
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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
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Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.
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Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.
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The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.
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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.
