Katha Pollitt Quotes
In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.Katha Pollitt
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
Calvin Harris -
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson -
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
Gamaliel Bailey -
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
Val Kilmer -
You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
Mae Jemison -
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright -
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
Hampton Sides -
I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
Carine Roitfeld -
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Caitlin Moran
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava -
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
Patrick deWitt -
In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
Vikram Patel -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
Quavo Migos -
I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
Harry Callahan -
The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
William Cowper -
What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
William Shakespeare -
You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
Dwayne Johnson -
In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt