Katha Pollitt Quotes
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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Headline writing is an art form.
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
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I used to be offended when people would compare me to Erykah Badu. Because I'm black, thick, and have large lips? There's nothing similar about us whatsoever, and I felt very disrespected by the fact that people needed to pigeonhole me. I wasn't even raised on Erykah Badu!
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
