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 don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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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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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.
