Erica Jong Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.
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Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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Me.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
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A prima descendit origine mundicausarum series.
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Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.
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I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.
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I really love stories about women.
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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind, And go from me leaving no trace behind, Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
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You think silence means something. Sometimes, there's just nothing to say.
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
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I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
