Judith Butler Quotes

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

Judith Butler

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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Important
  • School

• A man really determines himself by what he does.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Man
  • Really
  • Himself

• Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Success
  • Romantic

• The whole system of society tells you what to do.

  

  Barry White
  • Society
  • You
  • Whole

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Hate
  • Guilty

• I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Growing up, we always played competitions like chipping, hitting.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Bad
  • True

• I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.

  

  John O'Hara
  • Work

• Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Vision

• It is clear to me, as I consider the work laid out in the staff report, that many E-Rate program weaknesses must be addressed legislatively to avoid future waste and misuse.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Work
  • Future
  • Report

• I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Desire
  • Relations
  • Propose