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'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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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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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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In 1990, if I wanted a pair of Calvin Klein jeans I had seen in a magazine, I'd head to the mall, sift through piles of inventory to find my size, try them on, ask the opinion of the often inexperienced sales associate, wait in line to check out, pay, and head home. The process was linear and ripe for improvement.
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Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates(As curious ladies do, their public cates),This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,The dreadful presence of our empress sings:Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)Till virtue flourish in the light of light.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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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.
