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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. ↗

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#dominant #even #first #get #languages

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#foreign #foreign language #gets #language #mathematician

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#already #begun #certain #dream #dreamed

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#england #greatest #i #learnt #many

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet. ↗

— William Joyce

#alive #come #cream #find #get

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#believing #down #down to earth #earth #grew

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started. ↗

— David Blaine

#doing #fascinated #go #guess #hang

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing. ↗

— Paul Desmond

#dave #get #later #oh #planes

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

#because #contain #experimental #explanations #fail