Judith Butler Quotes
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
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Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.
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What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.
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Καὶ γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια,γένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος.
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.
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As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
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My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.
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In anything, I always give my all. I'm not a good loser.
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Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.
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Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
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I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'
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I was off to Yale to be a lesbian.
