Michel Foucault Quotes

I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school There was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.

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• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

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• You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

  

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• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

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• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

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• But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

  

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• When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.

  

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• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  

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• Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

  

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• People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

  

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• Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

  

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• There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

  

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• What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?

  

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• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  

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• I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school There was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.

  

  Michel Foucault
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