Erica Jong Quotes
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Walter Bagehot -
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Barbara Bush -
I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
Harriet Walter -
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Adam Gopnik -
Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
Young Thug -
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
F. Lee Bailey -
The strength of America is not in Washington.
J. C. Watts -
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie
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All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
Jack Valenti -
Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
Quintilian -
In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.
T. E. Lawrence -
Hell, that's why they make erasers.
Clarence Darrow -
I loved my country, and I hated him.
Lord Byron
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
Anita Loos -
Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.
William H. Macy -
Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I promote peace and positivity.
T.I. -
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
Erica Jong