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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Ever

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Believe
  • News
  • Journalism

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• There's definitely something transformative about clothes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Something
  • Clothes

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Bag

• A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Business
  • Like
  • Results

• I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Fan
  • Fabulous

• We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Winning
  • Learn
  • Losing

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Real
  • Paris
  • Valley

• I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • American
  • Better
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Answers
  • Accounts
  • Experts

• I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Book
  • True
  • Reading

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the media industry's response to the unlicensed content on the site.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Opportunity

• A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Book