Jacques Derrida Quotes
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.
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I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!
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I don't do anything in a vindictive manner. Look at my 14-year track record in Gujarat. People don't vote me to power to take revenge.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.
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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
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We've continued to expand the overall footprint of Ulta Beauty both physically and digitally in so many ways.
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I am in love with stories of underdogs.
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I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.
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We are all mediators, translators.
