Erica Jong Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.
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It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.
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The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
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The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck.
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I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
