Erica Jong Quotes
Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.
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Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.
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Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.
