Kathleen Hanna Quotes
There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.
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The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.
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All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.
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Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.
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I'm old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.
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There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.
