Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.
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'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'
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You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times.
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I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
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That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
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Since his election, President Trump has made clear that he and his administration will be focusing on ensuring that the government is a smart buyer, getting the most for the taxpayer's dollar.
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As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.
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I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
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When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.
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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
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I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.
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The difference between Superman and Wonder Woman is not strength or power level or origin but the fact that she is a woman.
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God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses.
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At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
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I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it's like they're trying to pretend it's not there.
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Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
