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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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
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There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
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It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
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President Bush got an early Christmas gift. This week, President Bush was chosen as 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine. Not only that, Martha Stewart was chosen as person of the year by Doing Time magazine.
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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.
