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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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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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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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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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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Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
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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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What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose... so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.
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I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.
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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.
