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
-
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.
-
I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
-
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.
-
When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
-
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
-
We can only learn to love by loving.
-
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.
-
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
-
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
-
It's really surreal when I play shows, I'll have three or four people who are in the front row who are singing every word to my songs. The first time I experienced that I was like,"Are they mocking me? Is this a joke?" But it's not a joke. They actually identify with my music and that is something that I'm getting used to.
-
Music is my ultimate passion in life.
-
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
-
I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.
-
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
