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Jacques Derrida Quotes

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Jacques Derrida

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004

Topics

Today School Anxiety Never Stomach

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

Meir Soloveichik

God Focus Will Torah Jews Embodied

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

People Chaos Writing Stupid Thought

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

John Shelby Spong

Hero Party Say Way Over Jewish

I do what makes me laugh.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

Good Myself Feel Good Feel Clothes

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

Run Because Get Cannot Been Stories

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

Miroslav Vitous

Friend New York New Where Bass Met

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Beauty Nothing Always Something Lies

If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about which you are passionate, dedicate yourself to that purpose.

Job Purpose Yourself Feel You About

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Revolution Intelligent Movement Noble

'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

People Me World Wolf Acting Stage

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

Technology Science Competition Fun

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