Michel Foucault Quotes
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I would love to be a role model.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I love music.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it.
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It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.
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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
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The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.
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To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
