Jacques Derrida Quotes

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
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  • Taken

• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Dream
  • Dreams
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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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  • Song

• I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
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  • True

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
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  • Colonies

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
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  • Wall
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• The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Day
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• If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

  

  Kate Thompson
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  • Journey
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• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
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• Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.

  

  Felicia Day
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• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
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• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Vegetables
  • African
  • Spice

• My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Thought

• A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

  

  Floyd Skloot
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• I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!'

  

  Kali Uchis

• The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

  

  Dwyane Wade
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  • Community
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• As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
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  • Leadership

• I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

  

  Jacques Derrida
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