Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Daniel De Leon
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
Cameron Mackintosh
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
Zach Braff
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
Page McConnell
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
Cal Hubbard
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
Inbee Park
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
Olly Murs
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
Kate Grenville
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
Viktor Orban
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
E. L. Doctorow
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
Nate Powell
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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Memorable providence, relating to witchcraft's and possessions. (1689) 1
Cotton Mather
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To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
Ellen Key
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It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.
Margaret D. Nadauld
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of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
Erica Jong