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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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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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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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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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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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,But search of deep philosophy,Wit, eloquence, and poetry;Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.
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Although it may be the easiest, it's not always the best.
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To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
