Erica Jong Quotes
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
Edmund Morgan -
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
Harold Prince -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
Garret Dillahunt -
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
Nate Lowman -
Every role is a new form of surrender.
Laura Dern -
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
Haley Joel Osment -
I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
Samuel Daniel -
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. Forster
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You don't have shit to say now, do you?
Nate Diaz -
Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Frank Sinatra -
The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
Alex Berenson -
The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
Claire Tomalin -
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Eric Cantona
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I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.
Ana Navarro -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.
LZ Granderson -
Truth is the precious harvest of the earth. But once, when harvest waved upon a land, The noisome cankerworm and caterpillar, Locusts, and all the swarming foul-born broods, Fastened upon it with swift, greedy jaws, And turned the harvest into pestilence, Until men said, What profits it to sow?
George Eliot -
When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
Rachel Platten -
Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
Erica Jong