Judith Butler Quotes
People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.
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As the aphorism says, If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
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To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
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People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.