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.Judith Butler
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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.
Jack Osbourne -
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.
Kara Swisher -
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.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
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.
Karan Johar -
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.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Flannery O'Connor
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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
Alessandro Del Piero -
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Louis Nizer -
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
Ang Lee -
Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Caitlin Lowe
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I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
W. Heath Robinson -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
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!
Marianne Williamson -
We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.
Nelly Sachs -
Truth is not always a pleasant thing.
George C. Scott -
The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare -
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.
Judith Butler