"We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world."

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Source : "Judith Butler: 'What value do the humanities have?'". McGill University speech, speakola.squarespace.com. May 30, 2013.

Judith Butler

#World Quotes #Return Quotes

“Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.”
“At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.”
“It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.”
“Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.”

Source : "Michael Connelly’s Biography/ FAQs". www.michaelconnelly.com.
“I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.”
“When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.”
“If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.”
“The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts on the political spectrum. I'm left-leaning, and I discovered as I was doing it that I had an impulse to make the left-hand side appear better than the right-hand side. That was manifesting in the way I was choosing certain words, framing certain ideas. I shared it with a few people, and they all said, "Oh my God, this is really biased." I hadn't seen it at all.”

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