Michel Foucault Quotes
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
Quotes to Explore
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
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Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
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Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'
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It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.
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As the Ambassador for WWF Earth Hour, I still vividly remember that there were only 80 buildings in China that participated the Earth Hour in its first year. Six years later, there were 170 cities and thousands of buildings that participated. We are still growing strong. I am encouraged by the accomplishments we have made together and they make me proud and more determined than ever.
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I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
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Probably you don't understand why I'm leaving, but to love and to suffer are parts of life.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.
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For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs that they had, only to be brought to America where they're not treated like Americans - they're just not really treated like anything.
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There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
