Erica Jong Quotes
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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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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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
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I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
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Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.
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The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
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It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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Talking about the difference between the first and twentieth year of marriage Remember that first year of marriage, you used to argue just so you could make up and have sex? Twenty years later, you're arguing just so they'll sleep in the other room.
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Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
