Erica Jong Quotes
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
