Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Catharine MacKinnon

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• I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • People
  • Music
  • Words

• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Foolish

• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Men
  • War

• Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

  

  Jonathan Frid
  • People
  • Should
  • Stuff

• Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • Stories
  • Parent
  • Roles

• You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.

  

  Adolf Dassler
  • Around
  • Broke
  • Thinkers

• It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • World
  • Idealists
  • People

• I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.

  

  Alex Prager
  • Green
  • Los Angeles

• I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • World
  • Real
  • Movie

• My sexuality's something that's intimate. It's not anything that I'm ashamed of.

  

  Antoni Porowski
  • Ashamed
  • Sexuality
  • Intimate

• Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Effort
  • Creative
  • Inequality

• The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

  

  George Foreman
  • Age
  • Boxing
  • Sentences

• I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Sexuality
  • Pornography