Judith Butler Quotes
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi -
When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
Zoe Kravitz -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
Edmund Phelps -
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Ira Glass
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
Ian MacKaye -
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
J. Paul Getty -
Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
Pat Buchanan -
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
Famke Janssen -
I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.
Kaki King
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There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham Lincoln -
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong -
I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
Kate Mara -
I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
Paloma Elsesser -
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
Adam Cohen
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
Paul Auster -
I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!
Trisha Yearwood -
Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.
Zengzi -
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith -
I got approached by SoBe a few months ago about being an ambassador and I learned about the previous ones including Naomi Campbell, so I was instantly interested! Then I tried and really liked it. It's different and has interesting flavours... we don't have anything like it in the U.K.
Ellie Goulding -
I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.
Judith Butler