Jacques Derrida Quotes

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Jacques Derrida

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• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Instrument

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
  • Greatest
  • Thieves

• You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • May
  • Think
  • Learn

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership
  • Ever
  • Replace

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Community

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Daughter
  • Difficult
  • Ugly

• I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Different
  • Learning
  • Animal

• I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

  

  Jacques Derrida
  • Believe
  • Desire