Judith Butler Quotes
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
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Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.
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Help me prove that I'm still on your side. I never showed just what you do to me. The timing was always wrong.
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Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.
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Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony.
