Marge Piercy Quotes
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
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My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
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If I couldn't have discipline, if I sit up eatin' fried chicken in bed at night, I'd just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.
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And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.
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Oh no! What have I done? I smashed open my little boy's piggy bank, and for what? A few measly cents, not even enough to buy one beer. Wait a minute, lemme count and make sure... not even close.
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Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.
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As any mother knows, we just want our babies to feel better quickly, and we all do whatever we have to do to help them - no matter how much it inconveniences us or hurts our backs!
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The only time we fail is when we stop trying.
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You wanna do some living before you die. Do it down in New Orleans.
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Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
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I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.
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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.
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For Spinoza, an ethics and a politics follow directly from and are immanent in metaphysics; the better one understands the universe in its complexity, in the connections that link each thing to every other, the more adequate is one’s ethical relation in and to it. An ethics does not spring directly from our understanding of the world. Rather, it comes from our affective bonds to and connections with other things in the world, relations that enable us to enhance or diminish forms of life.
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
