Judith Butler Quotes
Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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There are no rules when it comes to love.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
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For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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I've never said, 'I live for art.'
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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves.
