Jacques Derrida Quotes

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Jacques Derrida

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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.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Consciousness
  • Product

• I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Business
  • Military
  • Author

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
  • Self-Esteem

• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Problem
  • Photography
  • Turn

• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Best
  • Cultures
  • West

• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Success
  • Cold
  • Lonely

• I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Future
  • Today
  • Education

• It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • People
  • Classy

• Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

  

  Andy Dunn

• 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.

  

  Jake Abel
  • Live
  • Twilight

• 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.

  

  James Woods
  • Emotional

• As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

  

  Paullina Simons
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

  

  David Wain
  • Mad

• History is not history unless it is the truth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truth
  • History

• Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Kill
  • Terms
  • Comparing

• In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Paris

• President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Country
  • Art
  • Today

• As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

  

  Jacques Derrida