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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As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.
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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
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If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
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I am not married anymore. I hate marriage ... but it's okay now.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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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.
