Natalie Merchant Quotes

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• I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

  Natalie Merchant

  Should Have, Wish, Youth

  "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

  Natalie Merchant

  Despair, Culture, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President.

  Natalie Merchant

  Media, Expression, America

  "What is Patriotism?". www.thenation.com. July 15, 1991.

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• Life is sweet, life is also very short.

  Natalie Merchant

  Sweet, Philosophy, Life Is

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• I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

  Natalie Merchant

  Sight, Musician, Privilege

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• TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

  Natalie Merchant

  Car, Television, Our Society

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• For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

  Natalie Merchant

  Friendship, Kindness, Debt

  Song: Kind and Generous, Album: Retrospective 1995-2005

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  Natalie Merchant

  Media, Mind, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

  Natalie Merchant

  Able, Wonderful, Moments

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• The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

  Natalie Merchant

  Nerd, Research, Phases

  "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I've raised my daughter with no television.

  Natalie Merchant

  Daughter, Mother, Television

  "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

  Natalie Merchant

  Wise, Philosophy, Eye

  Song: Carnival

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• I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

  Natalie Merchant

  Writing, Labor, Manuals

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• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

  Natalie Merchant

  Humorous, Thinking, Prison

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.

  Natalie Merchant

  Mother, Children, Achieve

  "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.

  Natalie Merchant

  Gay, Years, Following

  "Paradise Is Here: An Interview With Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing.

  Natalie Merchant

  Believe, Caring, Reality

  "Natalie Merchant: Of nice and men". Interview with Donna Freydkin, www.cnn.com. May 21, 1999.

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• Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

  Natalie Merchant

  Mind, Blind, Lost

  Song: Carnival

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• Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

  Natalie Merchant

  Booty, Shaking

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• I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

  Natalie Merchant

  Self, Records, Way

  "Paradise is here: an interview with Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.

  Natalie Merchant

  Careers, People, Interesting

  "Paradise is here: an interview with Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.

  Natalie Merchant

  Thinking, Years, Play

  "Paradise Is Here: An Interview With Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  Natalie Merchant

  Crush, Girl, Years

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  Natalie Merchant

  Motherhood, People, Giving

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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