Erica Jong Quotes
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences
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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
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Thanks to having my dad travel with me, I don't feel quite cut off from my family.
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Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
