Marge Piercy Quotes
Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find a target, a pain that will beget pain. A decade downstream a child screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched, a firing squad is summoned, a button is pushed and the world burns.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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'Everybody thinks they’re doing the right thing, kid. All the time. It’s about the only rule that explains how fucked-up this universe is.' A wan smile crept across her face. 'Nobody is a villain in their own head, are they? We all know we’re doing the right thing, which is why we’re in this mess.'
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?
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Never marry because it seems like what you should do.
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Every baby born unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come due in twenty years with interest, an anger that must find a target, a pain that will beget pain. A decade downstream a child screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched, a firing squad is summoned, a button is pushed and the world burns.
