Michel Foucault Quotes
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
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On his good mornings, I don't suppose there are more than a handful of men in the W. 1 postal district of London swifter to spot oompus-boompus than Bertram Wooster, and this was one of my particularly good mornings. I saw the whole hideous plot.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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We are talking about a special player, the one who would mean a lot to us. Anyhow, I wish him a lot of luck in his career.
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In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.
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Te de aliis, quam alios de te suaviu’st.
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The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
