Erica Jong Quotes
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Life is too short to be able to love as one should.
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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
