Jacques Derrida Quotes
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
