Michel Foucault Quotes
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'
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I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
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I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
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I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.
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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
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Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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Phil Griffin, who happens to be the head of MSNBC, is not a liberal or progressive. I worked at MSNBC; I talked to Phil Griffin many times. I know Phil Griffin. He is not remotely progressive. All he cares about is success in his own career.
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By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?
