Erica Jong Quotes
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.
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True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
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You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.
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For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism.
Biz Stone -
Religion was best understood when least talked of.
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
