Erica Jong Quotes
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.Erica Jong
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
Bar Refaeli -
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova -
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra -
I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
Adam Carolla -
We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
Frances Wright
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
Bebe Rexha -
I can afford to say what I wish.
J. Paul Getty -
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
Rachel Cusk -
Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
Karan Mahajan -
Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
Kary Mullis
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
Gail Devers -
The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
Halle Berry -
I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
Ed Harris -
I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.
An Na -
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
Emo Philips -
While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.
Laurence Yep
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I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz -
He said the first baseman caught the ball, I saw it completely different. I asked him to ask the other umpire and he said it was my call and I'm not going to ask the other umpire. I really need to watch what I say. I've been reprimanded before. That didn't have a whole heck of a lot of bearing on the ball game. It was pretty well out of reach, but let's just put it this way: I've got a control pitcher on the mound and he walks five guys in three innings. That's all I'll say. He hasn't walked five guys in five games.
Vance Law -
I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
Victoria Osteen -
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
Langston Hughes -
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
Erica Jong