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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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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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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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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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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
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Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.
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I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.
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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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I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.
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It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
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Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
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One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books.
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Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
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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.
