Michel Foucault Quotes
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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I feel like science and art are cousins.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
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From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
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I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'
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Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
