Anita Sarkeesian Quotes
Why are ... female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.
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If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
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You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.
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True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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Why are ... female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.
