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 enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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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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When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.
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People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.
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I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.
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When I look out my window, Many sights to see. And when I look in my window, So many different people to be...
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I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.
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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.
