Judith Butler Quotes
Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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Every single person around the world has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the stuff in that storage facility is worn three times or less in its lifetime.
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It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
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No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
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I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.
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Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.
