Catharine MacKinnon (Catharine Alice MacKinnon) Quotes
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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I'm not really into rap.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.
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Low-value payments are now possible. Now, Ripple can make it easy for Facebook and Uber and Amazon to make payments to developers in real time. It's online and completely global.
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Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
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My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful.
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An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
