Mary MacLane Quotes

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth.

[William Randolph] Hearst's power for evil is immeasurable.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

Young girls have been infected by television programs and have become sex addicts…. Young women should not laugh in public.

Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

I didn't realize how limiting an R rating is. I made 'Disco' as a cautionary tale for 14- and 15-year-old girls, and those girls were not allowed to see the film by their parents.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

The Republican Party's typical position is to preemptively surrender whenever liberals start yelling 'Oh that's mean. You can't use that word': 'Oh I did not realize that 'The New York Times' made a finding that the term 'anchor baby' is offensive. Henceforth I shall not use it.'

I canceled the Russian shows because, from the days of the first Dire Straits album, I've supported Amnesty International. It's not a good thing to read about people being jailed for no reason, so I raised my hand and made a small objection. It was good to do - but where do you stop?

Ultimately, I do my best to not subscribe to things that are unnecessarily negative, harmful, or hurtful to somebody.

I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

Concentrating on yourself all day is not healthy.

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

The thing that got me to change was when my kids would come and tell me I was swearing on TV, so I knew I wanted to make a change.

I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.

Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging.

Every day I wake up and think: 'Am I part of the problem? Am I helping further entrench the political divide? All the raging mouthpieces of the right that I'm furious with - am I just the same but on the left?' I have no easy answers to that.

You act in different ways for your own personal well-being, and you don't think about the people you hurt along the way. wish I would have thought about it.

I feel social media is so damaging to young people, I see it as being extremely dangerous.

If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.

I started using my blog to get information about cities I was about to visit, asking followers what the main problems there were. Many mentioned misconduct of politicians and other things I wanted to talk about during my shows. Then, before a show in one city, local politicians called saying they would sue if I said something unpleasant.

I think that, as a show creator, you have to be very careful about what messages you're putting out into the world. That is a not always popular thing to suggest, because it feels very Tipper Gore-y, perhaps.

In daily life, there are times when people are happy to talk about problems, but when the society is troubled by something, there is never a larger platform for discussion. Bollywood is religion in our country and that is the best place where you can place those questions on the table.