Mary Gaitskill Quotes
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Gary L. Francione -
I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
Olivia Thirlby -
No one today knows what is indecent.
Jack Valenti -
My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
Zendaya -
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
Garry Shandling -
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
Harold Ramis
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
Taylor Swift -
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
Rainn Wilson -
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
G. H. Hardy -
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
Taylor Swift -
I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.
Odette Annable -
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
C. S. Lewis
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher -
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
Camille Paglia -
Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.
Annie Besant -
The reason I sell 6 million records, the reason I could go to jail and come out without a scratch, the reason I can walk around, the reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly in to my face and find my soul, it's there, it's not sold, i didn't sell it, it's still within me, I still feel it, my heart is still connected to my body.
Tupac Shakur -
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
Albert Bushnell Hart -
There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
Chaka Fattah
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To be clear, any abortion that takes place is one too many. But if it has to take place, then I think it should be available, and it should be available in a safe way.
Alexander De Croo -
I have many close male friends.
Katherine Kelly -
I do proclaim myself king of bachata because I have to represent my genre. I have to always come out and put on the Superman cape. I'm pretty much representing my culture. I'm not going to change that. But I definitely don't want there to be a misconception where people are like, 'The only thing he likes to do is bachata.'
Anthony Santos Aventura -
I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.
Stewart Rahr -
Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
David Daiches -
I didn't like horses when I was a kid.
Mary Gaitskill