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.

Erica Jong

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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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • American
  • Government

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Life
  • Music
  • Friends

• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Publicity
  • Itself
  • Skunk

• The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Inspiration

• 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.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Different
  • Done
  • Language

• I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Really
  • Go
  • Fortunate

• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Boyfriend

• 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.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Business
  • End
  • Corruption

• 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.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • People
  • Taken
  • Beach

• More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Different
  • Company
  • Cultures

• It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Weird

• The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Citizens
  • Lions

• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • People
  • Never
  • Forgive

• A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of 'The Office.' It's not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don't understand.

  

  Benny Fine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Women
  • Moving