Anita Sarkeesian Quotes

It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

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• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Production
  • Lot
  • Animation

• I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Doing
  • Process
  • Editing

• When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Shoes

• Everyone is going to die.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Going
  • Everyone

• A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Start

• I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Red

• I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Know

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Mind
  • Sports
  • Training

• You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

  

  T.I.
  • Work
  • Know
  • Audience

• It's been quite the experience for two brothers who were Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, who had no idea that they were going to end up in the entertainment industry. To be where we are now, making features, TV shows and getting a hundred million views online is kind of an amazing thing.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Thought
  • Human
  • Bitter

• I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Fiction
  • Watch

• And understand: class differences will not save you.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Understand
  • Differences

• Not enough people in this world are happy.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Fight
  • Weekend

• I would never, ever trade any campaign donation - that's absurd - for some type of favor to anyone.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Never
  • Campaign
  • Donation

• If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Today
  • Passion
  • Dancing

• Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Perspective
  • Caught
  • Speculation

• When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • People
  • Lost
  • Learning

• It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about JRR Tolkien or Star Trek or something.

  

  Brad Warner
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Star Trek

• You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated style, 'cause they give you all these free clothes.

  

  Edward Burns
  • Business
  • Free
  • Style

• It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian