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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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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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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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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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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The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
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From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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History breaks down in images not into stories.
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Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.
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Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
