Erica Jong Quotes

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

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• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
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• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
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• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

  

  Adam Beach
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• Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

  

  Harmony Korine
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  • Game
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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  

  K. D. Lang
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  • Society
  • Period

• I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

  

  R. Kelly
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  • Up
  • Good

• It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Time
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• I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
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• The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

  

  Barney Frank
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• The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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  • Love
  • Cartoons

• There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
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• One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

  

  Peer Steinbruck
  • People
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  • Political

• Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.

  

  Frank Tipler
  • People
  • Space
  • Present

• The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

  

  Dusty Baker
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Learning

• You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Essence

• In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Up

• I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Trying
  • Marriage