Kathleen Hanna Quotes

When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities.

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• What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

  

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• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

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• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  

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• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

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• I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

  

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  

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• Growing up, I was always the small guy.

  

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

  

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• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

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• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

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• Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

  

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• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

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• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

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• I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.

  

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• Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn’t built the world. It had nothing to do with him.

  

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• When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Sometimes