Katha Pollitt Quotes
We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
Quotes to Explore
-
I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
-
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
-
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
-
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
-
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
-
I still keep my accent.
-
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
-
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
-
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
-
'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
-
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
-
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
-
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
-
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
-
I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
-
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
-
I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
-
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
-
I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.
-
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
-
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
-
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
-
We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
