Judith Butler Quotes
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Quotes to Explore
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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I never read about photography.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
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We got off to a good start, and I thought we wrestled well all day. The kids who did lose fought off getting pinned, and that was big for us.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
