Judith Butler Quotes
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
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This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.
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Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
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The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
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Age and gender, nationality and religion, what language you use - all of that isn’t important to me.
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Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off.
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
