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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More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
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I have over 35 tattoos.
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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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We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
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I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
