Erica Jong Quotes
It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.
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Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.
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I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
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It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
