Jackson Katz Quotes
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Wearing a hijab never made me feel any more conservative - it made me feel safe. Then, after 9/11, I became the butt of a joke on the playground, so I stopped wearing it. Kids can be really cruel when you're the only black girl in your Girl Scout troop.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
