Marge Piercy Quotes
I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.
Marge Piercy
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
Kajol
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller
On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
Iman
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
Dan Rather
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
Rahul Gandhi
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor Swift
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
Jack Dangermond
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
Daniel Espinosa
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Warren Buffett
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
Barbara Palvin
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
Adam DeVine
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
Ira Glass
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
Emanuel Ax
In 2006, I became the fist American to be allowed to go visit their astronaut center in China in Beijing. I think that it makes sense for the U.S. to work with China in the future and I hope to see, if the political atmosphere between the United States and China allow for us to do more cooperation together, especially in the area of human space flight. I think in the same way that it's help improve the relations between the U.S. and Russia; it would help to improve the relations between the U.S. and China.
Leroy Chiao
I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.
Marge Piercy
