Judith Butler Quotes
Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I was born free.
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We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
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I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.
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We live in very, very, very dangerous times.
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Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.
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I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.
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We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
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I am much more intelligent than you think.
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What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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My face does not get better. And, if I see in myself elements of withering, I try to take it philosophically.
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Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.
