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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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
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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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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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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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Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
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Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.
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It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
