Erica Jong Quotes
The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.
Erica Jong
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
Jack O'Connell
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Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
Beck
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
Patrick Duffy
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Yitzhak Shamir
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
Lena Horne
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But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.
Pablo Picasso
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I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
Hermann Hesse
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek
The Doors
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Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.
Antonio Guterres
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A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
Evan Esar