Lydia Lunch Quotes
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.
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Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.
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Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
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I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
