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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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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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 routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
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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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I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives.
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I stand behind all my tweets. If I tweeted it and I said it, I am not apologizing for it.
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The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
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Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That aspiration towards unlimited freedom, if not tempered by a love for mankind and by the desire that all should enjoy equal freedom, may well create rebels who soon become exploiters and tyrants.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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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.
