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Catharine MacKinnon Quotes

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

Catharine MacKinnon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1946

Topics

You Rules Done Group Abuse Status

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Jim Gerlach

Brave Independence Tyranny New Birth

I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.

Jillian Hervey

Learning Hip-Hop Way Always Dancing

The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

John Prendergast

Ignorance People Action Road Stop

Kurt Angle and Matt Hardy... I have so much respect for them.

Roddy Piper

Respect Angle Much Them Hardy Matt

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

Ruben Blades

Days Big Interest Market Labels Any

We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

Jaromir Jagr

Mistake Game Hockey New Understand

Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.

Asghar Farhadi

Love Culture Experience Grateful

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

Alice Cooper

Freedom Silence You Play Go Even

I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

Peter Munk

Focused More Being Compensate

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Peter Landesman

Life Music Light Together Me Color

You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

Nina Simone

Racism Society American You Street

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Noam Chomsky

Work Flaws Person Overcome Right