Erica Jong Quotes
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
Dana Rohrabacher
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
Gary Numan
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Dan Hill
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
Zara Larsson
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
Sade Adu
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I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
Natalie Portman
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
Jackson Katz
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
J. August Richards
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I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.
Andrea Savage
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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.
Barack Obama
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When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.
Lao Tzu
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An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Richard Reeves
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The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
Ashraf Dehghani
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It’s rare, he says, that we “encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment,” but “sensible, educated people” often say “with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride” that math is “pure torture” or a “nightmare” that “turns them off.”
Edward Frenkel
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Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.
Vera Brittain
