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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Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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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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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
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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.
