Erica Jong Quotes
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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Don't play his game. Play yours.
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I tried to come out of the box and I stumbled a little bit. I kind of tweaked it, but it's OK.
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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
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Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
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Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
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And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
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And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
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My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.
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Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.
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But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.