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.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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.
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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.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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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.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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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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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.
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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.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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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.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
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When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
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A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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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.
