Judith Butler Quotes
I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
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I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
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I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
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Charles is life itself - pure life, force, like sunlight - and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him - caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.
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La India's voice is so powerful. It will give you life.
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I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.
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Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
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One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
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In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.
