Erica Jong Quotes
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I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. The loss taught me not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed.
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
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I've learned my tricks watching videos on the Internet with friends. I'm always trying to copy what I've seen at home, what I learned from my friends. But you have to repeat it again and again to get it right on the field.
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Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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I'm probably the most optimistic person in the country, ... The only way for me to go is up.
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I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.
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A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.
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It's guarded by units of the British army and I can never come up to this border without experiencing deep feelings of anger and resentment.
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It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed with words of Germanic origin-calf (German 'Kalb'), swine (G. 'Schwein'), and ox (G. 'Ochse')-because the servants who guarded them were the conquered Anglo-Saxons. The names of the meats are of Romance origin-veal (French 'veau'), pork (F. 'porc') and beef (F. 'boeuf')-because those who enjoyed them were the conquering Norman masters.
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I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?
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I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.
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The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.
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I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
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I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
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While the Internet has allowed for some extraordinary progress in creating conversations about diversity, it also allows uninformed comments that one has made in the past to live forever.
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I'm the farthest thing from a foodie or a food snob. Those people terrify me.
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Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
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I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
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I do idiosyncratic dramedies.
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Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
