Kathleen Hanna Quotes
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
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Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.
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If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
