Jacques Derrida Quotes
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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I could stand to lose some weight.
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
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I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just go with it. It's much easier to let the Muse drive than for me to try to steer.
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
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After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
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Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
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People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
