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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I do my laundry on a weekly basis.
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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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We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.
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No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Ice cream was for assassins who finished their targets.
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I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
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Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
