Erica Jong Quotes
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.
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I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'
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I would rather face the terrorists than lose my civil liberties. If protecting our safety means taking away our Bill of Rights, then could I be so crass and bold as to scream 'Give me liberty or give me death'? Once freedom is gone-the bedrock foundation that built our country-what's left to stand for and believe in?
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Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
