Jacques Derrida Quotes

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Jacques Derrida

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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.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Food
  • Choice
  • Salmon

• 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.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Words
  • Wind
  • Communication

• I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Years
  • Protection

• 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.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Love
  • Kids

• 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.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Father
  • Thank God

• People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Science
  • Win

• I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Like
  • Better
  • Wine

• The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Iran
  • West

• What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Play
  • Investment

• 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.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Best

• I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Always
  • Material
  • Abundance

• 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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dress

• Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.

  

  James Lankford
  • Up
  • Law

• Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Business
  • Right
  • Fortunate

• Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Disciple
  • Destined
  • Mastership

• These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

  

  Jacques Derrida