Judith Butler Quotes
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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I've not actually been on too many dates.
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.
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Sometimes I might feel like a movie is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.
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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of slave morality.
