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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Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.
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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've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
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I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
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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.
