Michel Foucault Quotes
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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We were descended from royalty.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
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Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.
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As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!
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Man by nature wants to know.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
