Erica Jong Quotes
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
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Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.
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The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.
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My private life became public.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
