Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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I am hoping for a long career.
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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No one is 'born gay.' The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
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Did not Troyon tell me to enter the studio of Couture in Paris? It is needless to tell you how decided was my refusal to do so. I admit even that it cooled me, temporarily at least, in my esteem and admiration of Troyon.. ..and I after all, connected myself only with artists who were seeking.
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.
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Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them if they want. I mean, that's what telling stories and acting for a living are for - for the people.
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My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.
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Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
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I think that Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world, the way it has managed a diverse population, a migrant economy. The natural beauty of Canada is extraordinary. Obviously there is enormous kinship between the United States and Canada, and the ties that bind our two countries together are things that are very important to us.
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I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.
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It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
