Lydia Lunch Quotes
If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.
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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
