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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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
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I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.
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I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.
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Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
