Jacques Derrida Quotes

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

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• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Health
  • Humor
  • Cynicism

• The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • School
  • Day
  • Teachers

• Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Change
  • Living
  • Iron

• It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Night
  • Car
  • Driving

• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Home
  • American
  • Freedom

• Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Job

• Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Father
  • Everything

• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Me
  • Pen
  • Hen

• 'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Hope
  • Back
  • Selling

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Down

• During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Party

• At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Band
  • Listening
  • Moment

• I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Love
  • She

• And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Experience

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Reader

• I was pretty sheltered growing up. I just started getting into heavier music with the Tooth & Nail/Solid State era, which really kind of brought this whole thing to life for me, so I am really thankful for that label.

  

  Matty Mullins
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Amazing

• Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

  

  Jacques Derrida