Katha Pollitt Quotes
A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?
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Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.
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I take care of my voice. I don't go to loud discos where I have to shout; I don't have iced drinks.
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The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground.'
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If men were meant to be a dominant power, men would be on this earth by themselves. So, I don't understand when women's rights are challenged - because you're talking about human rights. You talk about subjugating an entire culture that we heavily depend on for everything we need for survival.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
