Jackson Katz Quotes
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.
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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
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In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.
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I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.
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One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
