Judith Butler Quotes

You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.

Judith Butler

• Activity
• Sexuality
• Transforming

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• I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Down
  • Held

• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Never
  • Wall

• We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Country
  • May
  • War

• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Movie
  • Kind

• One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Language

• God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Help
  • Team

• If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Giving
  • Games
  • Break

• I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Work
  • Family
  • Opinion

• No man can judge before the end.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Man
  • End
  • Judge

• Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Failure
  • Doubt
  • Main Paths

• It's a strange game, ... as the Scottish people say.

  

  Gary Player
  • People
  • Game
  • Scottish

• We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Character
  • Book
  • Best

• I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Water

• Here's a tip...If you leave a girl crying you're probably not doing your Don Juan routine right, asshole.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Girl
  • Crying
  • Asshole

• Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

  

  Alistair Sinclair
  • Activity
  • Illness
  • Insomnia

• Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

  

  Eric Kierans
  • Wisdom
  • Activity
  • Currency

• You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Activity
  • Sexuality
  • Transforming