Katha Pollitt Quotes
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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I like being part of teams that go into things that people don't think are doing very well and getting into them to do better.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.
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There are some people who must be saved without warning, and against their will.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.