Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.Catharine MacKinnon
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini -
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo -
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright -
I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
Cara Buono -
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
Lara Pulver -
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Albert Einstein -
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
David Benioff -
My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
Diana Ross -
Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.
C. Wagner
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
Brian Tracy -
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
Rita Mae Brown -
Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.
K Callan -
It's embarrassing to be out there and not be able to finish it, ... So, I would've liked to be able to at least run around the bases. But they told me that wasn't the right thing to do.
Gabe Kapler -
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison -
Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
William James -
Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.
Lao Tzu -
It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
Michael Ealy -
President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.
Michael Ramirez -
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Catharine MacKinnon