Marge Piercy Quotes

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Marge Piercy

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • High
  • Words
  • Actions

• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Dream
  • Black

• Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fly
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• 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.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Character
  • Hip Hop

• 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.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Explore
  • Avenues
  • Artiste

• 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• The Internet is a toilet. It is.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Internet
  • Toilet

• 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?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Live
  • Myself

• Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Writing
  • Military
  • Warrior

• I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Relationship
  • I Can

• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Knowledge
  • Fashion
  • Wise

• When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Real
  • Power
  • Body

• Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

  

  Ian Hacking

• Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

  

  Jenna Elfman
  • Character

• There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Earth

• Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? The answer is... yes. Of course, it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Small

• It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • Crazy

• The strenuous life tastes better

  

  William James
  • Taste

• The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Loyalty
  • Violent
  • Dogma