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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
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He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
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Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
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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.
