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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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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Wild men are so enormously attractive.
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The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.
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The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
