Judith Butler Quotes
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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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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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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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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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
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I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
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They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.
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I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
