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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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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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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I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
