Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 31, 1967

Topics

GoodTimeSchoolHigh SchoolTalking

The men and women that I've worked with on the police force are some of the most honest, heroic, and pure human beings I've ever met.

Jesse Lee Soffer

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I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Megan Smith

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin

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The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

John Sergeant Wise

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You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits

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You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America.

Ruby Dee

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Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

Jon Oringer

TimePeopleStartFeelSometimes

I really do love the theater, and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.

Chris Carmack

LoveTimeYouCareerOutGet

People want leaders. Not ideologues. Not people whose life experiences have been so narrow that they've been able to maintain the purity of their youthful ideals. Not people whose principal contact with political life comes in the form of speeches and sound bites rather than decisions and responsibilities.

Bret Stephens

LifePeopleDecisionsPoliticalWant

In football, you can't always have it your own way. You can't always have the good times. You are going to have bad spells and periods when you are not playing well. It is something I have to deal with. I have learnt to deal with it.

Ashley Cole

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I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

Alice Englert

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There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

Piper Perabo

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