Erica Jong Quotes
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
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I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?
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Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
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I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'
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When you’re dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.
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The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
