Erica Jong Quotes
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
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When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else
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I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.
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Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
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I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.
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History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.
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You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
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I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.
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The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
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The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.
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Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.
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All my work comes out of my life.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
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I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.
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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
