Jacques Derrida Quotes
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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I consider myself black.
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You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.
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In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.
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I love listening to classical music.
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'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.
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I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.
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At TechStars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors to take a Socratic approach and to provide data rather than decisions.
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In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.
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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.
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My own rhetoric is not so ‘us versus them.’ I don’t like fighting.
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
