Marge Piercy Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.
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The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.
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“Success breeds pride and vanity. And pride is the only reward of success.”
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[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.
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You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.
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My idea of Hell is to be young again.
