Kathleen Hanna Quotes

My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

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• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

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• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

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• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

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• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

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• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

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• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

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• I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

  

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• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

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• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

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• I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

  

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• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

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• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

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• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  

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• We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

  

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• I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

  

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

  

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• Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

  

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• As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

  

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• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  

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• My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

  

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