Jacques Derrida Quotes
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.
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I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.
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It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
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The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.
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Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
