Judith Butler Quotes
We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.
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I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.
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Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
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Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.
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I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.
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I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
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Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
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We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.
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I don't know how long my body will allow me to compete, but I can't imagine doing anything else. That day will come, and I just hope there'll be a light shining down a path telling me where to go.
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I hear you’re in line to inherit your uncle’s wealth. That makes you quite the heiress. Not many Colored women can claim that.
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At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
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We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.
