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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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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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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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
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It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
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The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
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I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.
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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
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The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.
