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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The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.
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It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
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We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
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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.
