Judith Butler Quotes

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

Judith Butler

• Criticism
• Cooperation
• Inequality

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• I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Real
  • Job
  • College

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.

  

  Young Thug
  • Live
  • Got
  • Miami

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Pride

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• Courtroom dramas can be boring.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Boring
  • Dramas
  • Courtroom

• Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Opened

• Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Parents

• My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Experience
  • Film
  • First

• I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Routine

• I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Place

• Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Always
  • Fish
  • Brown

• You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • School
  • Home
  • Community

• When I first started blogging, it was about getting out new music and capturing artists working in the studio. This was before artists were so social. They weren't so hands-on then.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Music

• Until you look forward to criticism, your Work’s not done.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Work
  • Done
  • Criticism

• I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody has the same opinion, not everybody likes the same players. The rankings are quite volatile: Today you're 'great,' tomorrow you're 'not,' but then you're 'great' again. It makes for great stories. Now, I always look at the long term and by doing that, obviously, I can stay calm through the storm.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Long
  • Today
  • Player

• In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Criticism
  • Cooperation
  • Inequality