Erica Jong Quotes
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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We surrendered rather easily to yet another romantic notion: that meaning is to be found only in misery.
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We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
