Erica Jong Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
Beanie Sigel -
I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
Danica McKellar -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
Pamela Anderson -
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie -
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts -
Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
Orhan Pamuk -
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown -
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
Pardis Sabeti
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
Jaclyn Smith -
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi -
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
Randy Quaid -
Love food and I love to eat.
Salma Hayek -
Love is serene and calm
Erica Jong