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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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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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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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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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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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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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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They would give us these helicopter rides, and every time we'd get on, the drivers would say 'now do you want to ride, or do you want to rrrride? On the helicopter! I'd be like 'I want the ride... the first one... the boring one... the ride. I don't want the 'rrrride'... I want the ride!
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Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
