Michel Foucault Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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I train to be the champion.
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.
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When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
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I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.
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Just telling women: If you don't speak up, things aren't gonna change. If you don't become an advocate, it's not gonna change. If you don't vote, it's not gonna change. If you don't run, it's not gonna change.
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I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
