Erica Jong Quotes
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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Time is our enemy here. This small amount of time that we have here this week is the start of putting this team together. These guys have to find a way to come together and it starts here.
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
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The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.
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The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.
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I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
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I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.
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The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
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If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
