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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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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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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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 like to be against the odds.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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It is always your next move.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
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I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Every act is a visual judgement.
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The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
