Katha Pollitt Quotes
Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.Katha Pollitt
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
Gail Collins -
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
Yehuda Berg -
Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
Ted Nugent -
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
Landon Liboiron -
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
Gary Oldman
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
Iain Glen -
I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
Taya Kyle -
My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
Hailee Steinfeld -
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky -
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg -
Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
Brown Campbell
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
Nadine Labaki -
Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
Candice Olson -
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
Rand Paul -
I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
Sally Field -
I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
Pam Bondi -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Laurence Housman -
We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
Bashar al-Assad -
Basketball used to be my top priority.
Derek Fisher -
I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.
Laurie Halse Anderson -
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.
Katha Pollitt