Judith Butler Quotes
War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
Quotes to Explore
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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I'm pretty boring.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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I put it a still life of a pear, made by Manet there on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter', for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
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We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.
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L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
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Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
