Marge Piercy Quotes

I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

Marge Piercy

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

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• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

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• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

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• People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

  

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• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

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• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

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• I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.

  

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• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

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• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

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• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

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• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  

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• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  

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• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  

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• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

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• Nvidia's OpenGL drivers are my 'gold standard', and it has been quite a while since I have had to report a problem to them, and even their brand new extensions work as documented the first time I try them. When I have a problem on an Nvidia, I assume that it is my fault. With anyone else's drivers, I assume it is their fault.

  

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• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

  

  J. I. Packer
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• Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Good
  • Mother
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• I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Quarrel