Erica Jong Quotes
It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Excess is excrement.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
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I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.
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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
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It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
