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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I've had such an odd career.
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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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I'd like to go back to Buffy, but I've been in a coma, I've jumped off a building, I've been in prison - how many other ways can they bring me back? But those guys are geniuses, so who knows?
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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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On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident.
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O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.
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I love trees I have this thing for trees and the colors & changing of leaves. I love it I respect these kinds of things.
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Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.
