Erica Jong Quotes
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
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She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.
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I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
