Judith Butler Quotes

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

Judith Butler

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I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

Jewel

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When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

John McCarthy

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We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

John McCain

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Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

Michael Bolton

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Science fiction is something I never understood.

John Waters

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I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

Stephanie Rice

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We always had so many kids in our family, running around the yard, sweaty little kids jumping in and out of the pool, the front door and back doors swinging open and shut, all of the parents getting pissed off telling us to stay outside.

Roman Reigns

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Because of the world we live in, we lock the doors in our house when we go to sleep. If you live in an apartment, if you can, you get a building that has a doorman or security.

Judy Sheindlin

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There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

Jon Watts

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Doug Larson

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You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Bruce Willis

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Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

Bob McDonnell

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