Marge Piercy Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.
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Beware of analogies: for millenia they corrupted medicine, and it may be their fault that today's pedagogical systems are so numerous, and after three thousand years of argument we still don't know which is best.
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Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
