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.
Abbey Lincoln -
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Sally Ride -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Lisa Kudrow -
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).
Benoit Mandelbrot
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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.
Ken Robinson -
I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
Marianne Williamson -
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
Will Self -
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel -
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins -
Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
Olivia Wilde -
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
Marianne Williamson -
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Erica Jong