Judith Butler Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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I had low self-esteem.
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One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
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That record she did with Peter Gabriel saved my life. That record helped me get sober. So she played a big part in my actual downfall and kind of 'rebirth'' as it were. That record helped me so much. I never told her that, but it did.
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The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.
