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.

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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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Preparation

• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • True
  • Hope
  • Leader

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Rich
  • Difference
  • Being Rich

• 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.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Think
  • Feelings

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Service
  • Modern
  • Paradigm

• You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • True
  • You
  • Movies

• Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Nothing

• You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Life
  • Family
  • Proud

• 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.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Humanity

• The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • People
  • Life
  • Path

• 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.

  

  Andre Breton

• Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Work

• He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Convinced
  • Convictions
  • Rationalist

• I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Learning
  • Tea

• The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Political
  • Rumor
  • North Korea

• There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Country
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Lydia Lunch