Lydia Millet Quotes

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

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• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • You
  • Politics
  • Policy

• 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.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Architecture
  • Advertising

• 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.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• I've had such an odd career.

  

  Sally Field
  • Career
  • Odd
  • Had

• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Business
  • Never
  • Ugly

• 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.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fear
  • Idea
  • Television

• Politics is compromise.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Politics
  • Compromise

• I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Admit

• In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• You're a fucking bitch. I'm going to destroy you.

  

  Paris Hilton

• 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.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Solitude

• America isn’t afraid to compete.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America

• An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Heart
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Culture
  • Organization

• 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.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Single

• I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• I wish I could separate trauma from politics, but as long as we continue to live in denial and treat only trauma while ignoring its origins, we are bound to fail. In today's world your ZIP code, even more than your genetic code, determines whether you will lead a safe and healthy life. People's income, family structure, housing, employment, and educational opportunities not only affect their risk of developing traumatic stress but also their access to effective help to address it. Poverty, unemployment, inferior schools, social isolation, widespread availability of guns, and substandard housing all are breeding grounds for trauma. Trauma breeds further trauma; hurt people hurt other people.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Hurt
  • Politics
  • Poverty

• There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

  

  Daniel Pauly
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Fishing

• The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

  Biz Stone
  • People
  • Good
  • Single

• Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

  

  Lydia Millet