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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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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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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I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
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I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of one of my all time heroes, George Jones. Georges' music was real and he was able to touch thousands through his songs. Not only was he a great singer, but he also had the ability to make you relate to every one of his songs, no matter who you are. He and his music will remain timeless in the world of country music. My thoughts and prayers are with his family through this difficult time.
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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.
