Katha Pollitt Quotes

Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

Katha Pollitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 14, 1949

Topics

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We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

Joel Edgerton

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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

John Dryden

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There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

Andrew Mitchell

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I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

John McEnroe

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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

John Mellencamp

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Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Robert Redford

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I've got an idea; how about you don't blame all gun owners for the actions of a few?

Jeanine Pirro

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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

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The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

Steven Price

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If you can make money with your talents, why not?

Steve Prefontaine

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An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Russell Hoban

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I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

Deborah Cox

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