Jacques Derrida Quotes

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
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  • Beginning
  • Choice

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • School
  • Career

• The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.

  

  Washed Out
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  • Simple
  • Start

• I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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  • Write

• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
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  • Mind
  • Past

• When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

  

  Omar Ahmad
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• I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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  • Body
  • Yoga

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
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  • Control
  • Singing

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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  • American
  • High

• One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

  

  Narendra Modi
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  • Important
  • Government

• I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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  • Responsibility
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• Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

  

  Palmer Luckey
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  • Want
  • Focus

• When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

  

  Garry Marshall
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  • You
  • Doubt

• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Start with the young, work with them until they are adults, and they will demand real food.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Work
  • Real
  • Food

• We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.

  

  David Wilcock
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• A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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  • Me
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• These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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  • Indifference
  • Funerals

• Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Life
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

  

  Jacques Derrida
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