Jacques Derrida Quotes
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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I'm incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to bring Mae to work with me as I take on the guest role of 'Mary McGowan.'
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Every Motown act dressed classy, and we were clean-cut. Whenever you saw a Motown act, they were polished, and they knew how to treat people.
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Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
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I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.
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I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds sometimes, so I think I'm lucky that I've been doing it so long that I can do it rather quickly.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
