Lucy Dacus Quotes

The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.

Lucy Dacus

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• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• One rose says more than the dozen.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • More
  • Rose
  • Than

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Platform
  • Infrastructure

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Personality
  • Lose
  • Rights

• It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Food
  • Morning

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Look
  • Ordinary

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Die
  • Successful
  • Week

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Ugly

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.

  

  Fábio Moon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• I am honored to have been chosen by Gov. Scott to serve Floridians as their lieutenant governor.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera

• I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Himself
  • Enlightened
  • He

• The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Life
  • Age
  • Beginning