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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Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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This is so much better than flying on a balance beam or on the uneven bars, where you don't have the fairy dust to keep you up. And it was just such a great sense of freedom.
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You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.
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I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.
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We are all mediators, translators.
