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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O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.
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I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
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When 'Red Tails' came along, all I knew was that they were the first African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force. I had no idea how deep the story went or about all their amazing achievements. There were a few Tuskegee Airmen on the set to make sure everything was as authentic as possible.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.
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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.
