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.

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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

• The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • School
  • Punches

• When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Beauty
  • Heat

• The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• 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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