Elizabeth Wein Quotes

I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

Elizabeth Wein

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• Arrogant
• Not Believe
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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
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• I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • Afraid
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• In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Loved
  • Afraid

• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Afraid
  • Expression
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• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
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• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Truth
  • True
  • Afraid

• I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Story
  • Working
  • Afraid

• I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Best
  • Story
  • Afraid

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

  

  U Thant
  • Present
  • Afraid
  • Washington

• I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Afraid
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction

• Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

  

  Lisa See
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Afraid

• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Afraid
  • Terror

• One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• Young children are not prejudiced against languages, unlike many adults, ... They are not afraid of having a go, of interacting with others linguistically. Later on, their hormones tend to get in the way.

  

  Peter Hall
  • Children
  • Afraid
  • Against

• I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Guy
  • Failure
  • Afraid

• I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Asked

• As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

  

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  • Age
  • Afraid
  • Tittle-tattle

• Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Miracles
  • Realist
  • Not Believe

• Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • People
  • Afraid

• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  

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  • God
  • Pray
  • Dialogue

• The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

  

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  • Wind
  • First
  • Trees

• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

  

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  • Music
  • Important
  • Hearing

• I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Afraid
  • Arrogant
  • Not Believe