Judith Butler Quotes
We're not in control of circumstances, but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I love to perform live.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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I refute it thus.
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Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.
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All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.
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We're not in control of circumstances, but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society.
