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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Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
