Erica Jong Quotes
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.Erica Jong
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt -
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
Jack Dee -
I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
Veronica Roth -
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon -
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman -
If all else fails, birdie the last.
Adam Derek Scott -
After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
Nat Turner -
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
Felix Frankfurter -
The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
Warren Farrell -
I told you when I came I was a stranger.
Leonard Cohen -
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
Leo Tolstoy -
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop -
You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
Diplo -
Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a “problem” when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as “solving” a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to “shift gear” into “Being” mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.
Mark Williams
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I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.
Dionne Warwick -
Can you imagine watching 'All in the Family' and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it's happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.
Jim Rash -
The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.
H. G. Wells -
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
Erica Jong