Judith Butler Quotes
Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
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The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.
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It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
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When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
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In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.
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I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.
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I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.
