Judith Butler Quotes
I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people would say that's impossible. And it may or may not be achieved, but I think that's less important than articulating what a just and fair world can be.
Quotes to Explore
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
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I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
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I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.
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I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.
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I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people would say that's impossible. And it may or may not be achieved, but I think that's less important than articulating what a just and fair world can be.
