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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• 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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  • Up
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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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  • Dream
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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
  • People
  • 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
  • People
  • 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
  • Greatest

• 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
  • Mind
  • Remember

• 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
  • People
  • Political
  • Decision

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • American

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

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • 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
  • People
  • Work
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• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Trying
  • Down
  • Consent

• It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Want
  • Style
  • Aesthetic

• As a female and someone who's young, I'm still coming into my own, and I still have struggles. I know how I look; I know what my flaws are - I don't need anybody to tell me that.

  

  Alessia Cara

• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  

  R. D. Laing
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  • Disease
  • Life Is A

• There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.

  

  Philip Caputo
  • Time
  • War
  • Fighting

• He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Habit

• 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