Judith Butler Quotes
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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I almost envy people who say whatever they want.
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I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.
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The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.
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My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.
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People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.
