Jacques Derrida Quotes

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Jacques Derrida

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MomentYouLookWillWhateverOut

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.

Joe Shuster

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That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

Joe Flaherty

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I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

Joan Rivers

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And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

John Chrysostom

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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

John D. Rockefeller

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Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.

Robert Jay Lifton

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I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.

Andy Kindler

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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Stephen Fry

DieLoseNeverOldProfessorsJust

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going.

Robert Crais

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Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

Ron Lewis

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In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

Mike Birbiglia

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