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

• When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

  

  John Woo
  • Up
  • Team

• In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Why
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Nights
  • Silences
  • Unnameable

• Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.

  

  Aurora Levins Morales
  • Liberation
  • Tolerate
  • Solidarity

• 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