Erica Jong Quotes

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • Political
  • Education

• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Conflict
  • Him

• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Fall

• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Space
  • Trust
  • Lucky

• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • College
  • Going
  • Doctor

• A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Community

• For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Saying

• One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Best
  • Limit

• I think I have just evolved as a person, as a human being. I like fitness. It's an important part of my everyday life, and I enjoy and endorse a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Important
  • Enjoy

• Despite all the divisions and discord within our democracy, I see the grit and determination and common goodness of the American people every single day –- and that makes me more confident than ever about our country’s future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• : No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.

  

  Larry Wall

• There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English

• 31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Simplicity

• In football, nothing lasts forever.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Football
  • Forever

• Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • God

• That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • God
  • Die
  • Face to Face

• Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Time
  • Effort
  • Breakfast

• Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Moral

• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

  

  Erica Jong
  • God
  • Funny
  • Brain