Erica Jong Quotes
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
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I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
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The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.
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We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
