Erica Jong Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.
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I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
