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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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
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I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.