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 -
I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
Gary Numan -
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 -
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 -
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For whatever the will and energy of a man may be, human strength has a limit, and this limit had been reached.
Alfred Dreyfus -
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
Colleen McCullough -
I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.
Jill Soloway -
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong