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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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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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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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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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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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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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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I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is to keep that hid.
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I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
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I don't make decisions around here. I have to wait until April to see how everything works out.
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
