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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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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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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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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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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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.
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I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.
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September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
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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.
