Kathleen Hanna Quotes
I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
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Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
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People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.
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Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.
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If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.
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I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.
