Erica Jong Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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A novel is not a rant.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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I like to be against the odds.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.
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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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I don't go to scary movies because they scare me. But I can be in them because I know whether I'm living or dying.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
