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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When he come up in the club he be blazin up Got stacks on deck like he savin up
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If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.
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Pain has an element of blank.
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I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
