Emily Martin Quotes

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

Emily Martin

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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Language

• I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Guess
  • Willingness
  • Audacity

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Water
  • Band
  • Fighting

• Web GIS provides us with a whole new window into our information through applications that are easy, 3D, and analytic. These applications are not just casual things, but reach deep into geographic knowledge and apply it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Information

• I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Tired

• Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Thought
  • Interest
  • My Own

• The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • True
  • Political

• Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Wise

• I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Text

• #BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Up
  • World
  • Power

• Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Interesting
  • Fashion

• Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Work
  • American
  • Career

• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades - a small town on the Mississippi River - for several generations.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Family
  • Small
  • River

• I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.

  

  Amber Benson

• I never think people are too careful with me.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People

• Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Age
  • Future
  • Past

• Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

  

  Emily Martin