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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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've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
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Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
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I will find you there where our low life heightens, Where the door of the Wonder again unbars, Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens, In the Stars behind the stars.
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There is so many things to do in life rather than playing tennis, so I'm sure I will find something. I just need a bit of time to kind of settle down.
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My work is not directly about the social or political.
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The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
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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?
