Erica Jong Quotes
Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
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The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed ax or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through its efforts.
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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
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In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
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The only failures are those who fail to try.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
