Judith Butler Quotes
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
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Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
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The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.
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I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.
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"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.
