Lucy Dacus Quotes
It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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I'm extremely hairy. It pretty much connects from the top of my head to my toes with a nice upper body sweater/track jacket type of thing.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.
