Judith Butler Quotes
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.
Quotes to Explore
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
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I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?
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All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.
