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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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.
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We must be the world we want to create.
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Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.
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This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Who ever said that one was born just once?
