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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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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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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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.
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Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves.
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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
