Judith Butler Quotes
We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.
Judith Butler
Quotes to Explore
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama
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There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
Elliott Abrams
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I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Loni Anderson
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As people seek to improve their living environment, there will be continuous demand for residential property. Investment in real estate market should have reasonable prospects in the long run.
Li Ka-shing
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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.
Zadie Smith
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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."
Oprah Winfrey
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I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.
Walden Bello
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Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.
Fannie Hurst
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America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
D. H. Lawrence
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In past wars only homes burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.
In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time
Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.
Sahir Ludhianvi
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For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.
Albert Einstein
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.
Sarah Dessen
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
Steve Buscemi
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It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist.
Ernest Fenollosa
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Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.
Isaac Marion