Erica Jong Quotes
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
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Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
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Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.
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For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
