Erica Jong Quotes
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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You have to follow that next step.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
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For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.
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Slavery has left behind it a spirit that still delights in human blood. Outrage, murder, and assassination are the inheritance of the freed men and women of the South. Neither our government nor our civilization seems able to stop the flow of blood. As in the time of slavery, the Church is silent.
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I can't work without music.
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Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.
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Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
