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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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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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 that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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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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If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
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How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
