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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Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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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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...words were said that could not be put right again...
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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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The force of the idea was such that I drew the car to the side of the road and stopped and, for some reason, laughed. It was a loud laugh, unsteady, and sounded, even to my own ears, slightly maniacal. Thinking back now, I realise it was less a laugh than the birth-cry of my dark and twin brother Benjamin Black.
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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
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The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.
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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.
