Erica Jong Quotes
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
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Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
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Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.
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If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
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Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
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I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
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Many traumatized people seem to seek out experiences that would repel most of us,14 and patients often complain about a vague sense of emptiness and boredom when they are not angry, under duress, or involved in some dangerous activity.
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When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.
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Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
