Jacques Derrida Quotes
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
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We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.
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When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
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Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
