Erica Jong Quotes
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes -
From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
Frances O'Grady -
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
Gabby Douglas -
Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
Candice Swanepoel -
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
T. Harv Eker -
I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
Salman Rushdie -
I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
Kate McKinnon -
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
Maggie Stiefvater -
I bat righty.
D. B. Sweeney -
'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
Dana Ashbrook
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
Jack Layton -
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
Alexander Berkman -
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
Quentin Crisp -
People have paid for content. They always have.
Barry Diller -
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.
Neil Diamond
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It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
Little Richard -
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.
Paul Robeson -
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them facts or theories in medical practice, I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations.
Benjamin Rush -
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Erica Jong