Judith Butler Quotes
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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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.'
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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.
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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There's something wholesome about the theatre.
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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!
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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
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People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.
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And it feels like, finally.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.
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Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.
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Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?