Erica Jong Quotes
I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
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In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.Their level life is but a mouldering fire,Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.
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I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.
