Judith Butler Quotes
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.
Quotes to Explore
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
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I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.
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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
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I live in a 9 million dollar turd.
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
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Writing is very cathartic for me.
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Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.
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I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.
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I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
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I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.
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We need to reach out - spend more time together.
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The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
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The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.
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Animals have no voice. They can't ask for help. They can't ask for freedom. They can't ask for protection. Humanity must be their voice.
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America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.
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Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.
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Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.
