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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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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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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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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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 just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
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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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We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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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.
