Erica Jong Quotes
Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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There is more to life than show business.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
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The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
