Erica Jong Quotes
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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These niggas ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you're Independent, Democrat or Republican
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
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A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.
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Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
