Kathleen Hanna Quotes
Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
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Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.
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Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
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Having a kid really changed my perspective.
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A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it's good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.
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Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!
