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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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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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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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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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 believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.
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Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.
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Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.
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Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program.
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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.
