Lydia Lunch Quotes
I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
Quotes to Explore
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
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When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.
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The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.
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Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
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If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
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My personal way to be a hero... is to be a vegetarian.
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One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.
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The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
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I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
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I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.
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I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
