Judith Butler Quotes
So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.
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My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.
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So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
