Judith Butler Quotes
It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.
Quotes to Explore
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I love football, football is my life.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
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I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it's been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate.
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On his process for writing novels: I can't imagine what the first sentence is, I can't imagine where I want the reader to enter the story, if I don't know where the reader is going to leave the story. So once I know what the last thing the reader hears is, I can work my way backward, like following a roadmap in reverse.
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People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
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If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.
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It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.
