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.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone is going to die.
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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.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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Not enough people in this world are happy.
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If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
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I would never, ever trade any campaign donation - that's absurd - for some type of favor to anyone.
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Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
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'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.'
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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering pouredAvails; no altars hath he, nor is soothedBy hymns of praise. From him alone of allThe powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
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Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!
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It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.
