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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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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When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
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The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.
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These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.
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Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.
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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.
