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" Politics are always involved, even in my love songs. "
Lydia Lunch
Love
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Always
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" Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever. "
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" I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline. "
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" I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest. "
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" I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. "
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" I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success. "
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" I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society. "
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" I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming! "
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End
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" Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.' "
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Two
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" The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and horror that I witness; I just digest it and spew it back, with venom. "
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" I'm like a one-woman protest machine. "
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Machine
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One-Woman
" Think your own thoughts. "
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Own
Think
" If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' "
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Write
You
" I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats. "
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I Think
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" Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright. "
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Stubborn
Angry
Fine
" I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive. "
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Thrive
Survive
Pleasure
" I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work. "
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" I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. "
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I Am
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" If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike. "
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Know
You
" Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen. "
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Mind
Daily
Daily Life
" I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular. "
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Doing
" The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either. "
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" Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do. "
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" Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is. "
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" The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment. "
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May
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" Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before. "
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" I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name. "
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Think
" The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about. "
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Sound
" If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self. "
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People
" I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. "
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" People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to? "
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