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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I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.
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'Don’t press her,' said Cooper. 'If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don’t insist on his saying it.'
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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
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Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
