Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
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I will choose only the least harmful way for the country. And that is the greatest benefit I am conferring on the country by embracing Buddhism; for Buddhism is a part and parcel of Bhâratîya culture. I have taken care that my conversion will not harm the tradition of the culture and history of this land.'
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But time has set its maggot on their track.
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
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I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.
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It's done, when it's done.
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I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
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If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.
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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
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Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.
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You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
