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

• 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

• 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

• Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Up
  • Support
  • Travel

• Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Like
  • Things
  • Cancer

• 'The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.''Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Law

• My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother - who was a teacher, so she home-schooled me - and then she would take me to the castle, and we would climb on it, and then I'd write creatively about it that night.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • World
  • Home
  • She

• As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Ignorance
  • Complacency
  • Disciplined

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

  

  Anita Sarkeesian