Marge Piercy Quotes
I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.
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We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.
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I do not play football to win the Ballon d'Or. I play football to be happy, because I love it and want to play football.
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Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.
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My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
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I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.
