Kathleen Hanna Quotes

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

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• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
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• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

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• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

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• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

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• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

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• When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

  

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• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

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• There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

  

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• I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

  

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• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
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• Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

  

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• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

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• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

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• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

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• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

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• In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's a major thing, and there are so many other significant occurrences that have come from the '60s and '70s up to now.

  

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• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

  

  Donald Johanson
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• People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'

  

  CeeLo Green
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• As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Black
  • White
  • Journalist