Erica Jong Quotes

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

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• One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Dirty

• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Important
  • Theology
  • Romans

• I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • End
  • My Life

• I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Lucky

• I'm starting to find my own style.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Style
  • Find
  • Starting

• I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Day
  • Always
  • Eating

• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Value

• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • You
  • Understand
  • Confused

• I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Deep
  • Dancing
  • Talents

• You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Know

• They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Write
  • Asked
  • Sacking

• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Business
  • Ugly

• As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fascinated

• The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Good
  • Enemy
  • Anxiety

• You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Need

• Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.

  

  Avital Ronell
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Stupidity

• A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Community
  • Individual
  • Made

• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Rights
  • Loses

• Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

  

  Erica Jong
  • System