Judith Butler Quotes
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
Quotes to Explore
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Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
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I got rid of all those reporters.
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We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.
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There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
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Tennis is physical chess.
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David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.
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Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.
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Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]
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Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings...
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
