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.
Quintilian -
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
Eartha Kitt -
We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood -
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.
Maddie Ziegler -
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
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.
Orhan Pamuk -
Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
Fran Tarkenton -
The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
Vanessa Paradis -
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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.
Felix Dennis
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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.
G. Willow Wilson -
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.
Barack Obama -
Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.
Marcus Aurelius -
The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
Chris Bell Big Star -
People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.
Jameela Jamil -
I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.
Peter Capaldi
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I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
Ian Mcewan -
My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
Zendaya -
Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.
Barack Obama -
It's impossible to beat Katrina Kaif in looks and sex appeal. She's too hot!
Nia Sharma -
People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.
Amandla Stenberg -
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
Michel Foucault