Judith Butler Quotes

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Good
  • Try

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Promise

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• 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

• I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Good
  • Think
  • Guy

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Reality
  • Like
  • Corner

• I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.

  

  Banks
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Passion

• The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • America
  • Honor

• Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mirror
  • Grateful
  • Thankful

• If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Two

• It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Trouble
  • Gender
  • Revolutionary

• I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.

  

  eL Seed
  • Life
  • Identity
  • Understood

• Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Space
  • Gender
  • Repetition