Lydia Lunch Quotes
Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.

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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
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Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.