Erica Jong Quotes
We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
Quotes to Explore
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
