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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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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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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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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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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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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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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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
