Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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I don't really think, I just walk.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
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When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.
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There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.
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The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.
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I knew I could have danced if I wanted to, really. But I didn’t, so I didn’t have to. The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on its axis when everyone else is bouncing around.
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People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.
