Erica Jong Quotes

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

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• I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

  

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• I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

  

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• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

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• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

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• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  

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• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
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• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
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• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
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• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
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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
  • People
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• They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

  

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• I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

  

  Kate Bush
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• I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

  

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• Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

  

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• Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

  

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• I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

  

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• Life is not what you expected it to be.

  

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  • Life is
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• I think what Pope Francis is saying is that nobody's perfect, you know? And so someone like Joe Biden, you know, where - you know, when he was running for president, people were - there were some bishops that were like don't let him have the Eucharist. And Pope Francis is saying that's not the point of this.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
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• Think about the number of times someone will say to herself, "I want to get out of this circumstance, but I'm too afraid. I'll lie about how happy I am in this marriage, and I'll put up a front." But she's betraying everything that's in her heart. She's making choices that are harming her, and that's why she's hurting. Her intuition is trying to tell her that.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Lying

• Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today