Erica Jong Quotes
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
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It's easy to clean up when you got money.
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We're an unselfish team. When you move the ball, you get the best shot. The ball is getting into the right people's hands at the right time.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine.
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.
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I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
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I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.
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My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.
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What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
