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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Power
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

• I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Children
  • Book

• Like other German theorists of the state, Carl Schmitt held to the idea that politics is always about violence; if we really and truly disagree with other people, we ought to treat them as enemies. Fish does not follow Schmitt this far. To be sure, he fills his books with examples of people who ought to, and usually do, hate each other: secular liberals dealing with religious fundamentalists; full-stop opponents of affirmative action confronting those who support it; defenders of speech codes and critics of hate-crime laws.

  

  Alan Wolfe
  • Violence
  • Books
  • Enemies

• Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.

  

  Jacqueline Leo
  • Life
  • Sleep

• A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.

  

  David Furnish

• 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