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 don't believe in mistakes. Never have. I believe that there are a multitude of paths before us and it's just a matter of which way we walk home. I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, than I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high-school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street ... or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
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I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
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People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.
