Anzia Yezierska Quotes
Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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Even for people who live in the country, there is a trepidation now about going outside to play. But it never occurred to us to be fearful when we were young.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
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Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.
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Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
