Katha Pollitt Quotes

Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.

Katha Pollitt

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• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Perfect
  • Player
  • Exist

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Work
  • God
  • Thinking

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • New York
  • Keep Going

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Film
  • Person
  • Watching

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Game

• Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Control

• For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • World

• Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Character
  • Perspective

• There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

  

  Jim Jeffords
  • World
  • Important
  • Future

• Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Women
  • Age

• Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Prison
  • Abortion