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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It made me feel cooler in real life to know I could be The Rock's daughter.
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China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.
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It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
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Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
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I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"
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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.
