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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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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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 used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
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I love WWE.
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Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
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I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.
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This is a historic visit full of love and brotherhood that sends the message that Iraq and Iran are now having the best relationship.
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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.
