Michel Foucault Quotes

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Michel Foucault

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• Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Different
  • Done
  • Want

• I would love to work with Shilpa again. But it would have to be for 'Dill Mill Gayye (DMG)' - that's the only fiction show I'll take up on small screen. I'm extremely faithful to that show. That apart, I'm not likely to do anymore fiction on TV for the time being.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

  

  William Manchester
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Doe

• Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Revenge
  • Vengeance

• We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Knowledge
  • Satisfied
  • Ignorant

• Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Laughing
  • Bloody

• I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Animal

• Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Mad

• Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Death
  • Leap
  • Gravity

• To me, money is a vehicle; it's a tool. I could use it as a weapon to destroy things or money can create-you can create an opportunity, you can create a charity, you can create things for your family, you can go do something for your family that nobody else would ever do. You can create educational opportunities, you can feed people overseas. And there's a tremendous leverage with money, or you can destroy people with it.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Charity

• Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

  

  Michel Foucault
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