Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Catharine MacKinnon

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Free
  • Because

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Change
  • Stop
  • Air

• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • You
  • Commitment
  • Honesty

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Justice
  • Effort

• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Power
  • You
  • Underestimate

• 'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Book
  • Political

• Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.

  

  Taliesin

• Don't do drugs.

  

  Eminem
  • Drugs
  • Don't Do

• Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Weird

• Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

  

  Emma Roberts

• If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Night
  • Light

• I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

  

  George Strait
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Morbid Condition

• Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.

  

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo
  • World
  • Reality
  • Model

• I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Silly

• The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Reality
  • Existence
  • Mistaken