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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• 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

• Lady writer on the TVShe had all the brains and the beauty.The picture does not fitYou talked to me when you felt like it.Just the way that her hair fell down around her faceThen I recall my fall from graceAnother time, another place.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Hair

• Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star. Ha! Look at how wrong we were. It turns out, that is exactly what we needed.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Reality
  • Perfect
  • Star

• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

  

  Mark Twain
  • River

• Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Book
  • Library
  • Admirable

• The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Humanity

• 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