Jacques Derrida Quotes

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Jacques Derrida

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• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Past

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Look

• Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

  

  Banks
  • You
  • Enough
  • Brave

• I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Play
  • Would
  • Hamlet

• Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Honest
  • Usually

• Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • May
  • Know
  • Alive

• I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Simple
  • Focus
  • Understanding

• I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Great
  • Create
  • Fiction

• Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Tell
  • Please

• Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Song
  • Night

• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Travel

• Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Made
  • Clever
  • Pictures

• The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Jesus
  • Thoughts

• If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Heart

• I know my fans look up to me and that's why I make my songs so personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope that my fans like what I have to say.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hope

• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • True
  • Words

• I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Sometimes
  • motivation
  • Accepting

• Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Old
  • Judges

• However closely we may associate thought with the physical machinery of the brain, the connection is dropped as irrelevant as soon as we consider the fundamental property of thought-that it may be correct or incorrect. ...that involves recognising a domain of the other type of law-laws which ought to be kept, but may be broken.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • May
  • Law
  • Brain

• If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Value

• Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

  

  Jacques Derrida