Marge Piercy Quotes
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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'Someone out there is waiting for you for a lifetime. You cannot afford to fail them; failing them is failing God. Remember, God is speaking to you through them, saying: 'They are fatherless, so that you can be their father.' 'They are lonely, so that you can be their companion.' 'They are in want, so that you can be their benefactor.' '
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Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.
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Whether we play well or not, we have to win this game. We must call on all our fans to create the right atmosphere, as this is like a final. My players are not brimming with confidence but they understand that they have the responsibility of putting in a decent performance.
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Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
