Erica Jong Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.
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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.
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The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
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It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
