Lydia Millet Quotes
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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Politics is compromise.
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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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You're a fucking bitch. I'm going to destroy you.
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The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
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America isn’t afraid to compete.
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An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.
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The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
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I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.
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I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.
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It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.
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Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.
