Michel Foucault Quotes
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.
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When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
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You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
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Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you'll ever meet. He's raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he's a straight shooter. He's a New Yorker, as they say.
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If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that’s all you read, like you don’t know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.
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Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.
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The readership for 'Sag Harbor' was different from people who'd read me before - it was linear and realistic, not as strange as 'The Intuitionist.' Did they carry over to 'Zone One,' a story about zombies in New York? Some, some not. I'm used to people not caring about my other books.
Colson Whitehead -
I am boring. I am boring!
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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...
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Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
