Erica Jong Quotes
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.
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Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
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I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book.
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
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Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
