Erica Jong Quotes

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Erica Jong

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• Sleep
• Sometimes
• Care
• Lovers
• Insomniac

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• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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  • Know
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• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
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• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Just

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
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• New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Together
  • Age

• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Power
  • You
  • Powerful

• Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Good
  • Career
  • Nice

• This solution has great superficial appeal-all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Great
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Beautiful

• If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Trying
  • Sleep
  • Sometimes