Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.Catharine MacKinnon
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking -
What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
Garry Trudeau -
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
Edmund Phelps -
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx
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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
V. S. Naipaul -
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
Laura Ashley -
Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.
E. Joseph Cossman -
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
H. L. Mencken -
You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
M. Night Shyamalan -
The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.
Ian MacKaye
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I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.
Nancy Crow -
Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
William Hull -
Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.
William Bernbach -
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
William H. Seward -
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
Malese Jow -
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
Ian Somerhalder -
I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.
Anna Meredith -
It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.
Victoria Moran -
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
Catharine MacKinnon