Erica Jong Quotes
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.Erica Jong
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad -
I don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush -
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
Carlene Carter -
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
Gary Paulsen
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole -
We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
Marat Safin -
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo -
Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
Uday Kotak
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
Paloma Elsesser -
Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
Nargis Fakhri -
I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Pat Gillick -
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
Idris Elba
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I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
Narendra Modi -
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson -
Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
John Fusco -
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
Rudyard Kipling -
Nothing's planned. Never say never.
Mike Rutherford Genesis -
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
Erica Jong