Jacques Derrida Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I aspire only to silence.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.
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Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.
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Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
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Who ever said that one was born just once?
