Judith Butler Quotes

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

Judith Butler

• Gender
• Sexuality
• Homophobia

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• I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Done
  • Lies
  • Trump

• Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

  

  La India
  • God
  • Love
  • Mother

• I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

  

  Xenophon
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Will

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Decision
  • Never
  • Said

• There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Religion

• People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • People
  • Music
  • Words

• There's something wholesome about the theatre.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Something
  • About

• I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Day
  • Working
  • Part

• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Interest
  • Capital
  • Vocally

• The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Foolish

• More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Literature

• The whole thing in general started by us wanting to impact the Kingdom and bringing as much glory to God as possible. That's still our overall purpose, but God's given us to passions. That's to impact the non-believer and let them know through our actions and through our music and through our shows that there is hope, there is meaning, there is purpose in this life.

  

  Alan Powell
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Glory

• New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

  

  Edward Robb Ellis
  • New York
  • Achievements

• I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Thought
  • Security
  • Sexuality

• I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Change
  • Gender
  • Transition

• I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.

  

  Sidse Babett Knudsen
  • Poetry
  • Discovered
  • Languages

• I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Gender
  • Sexuality
  • Homophobia