Michel Foucault Quotes
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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We care about margins.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
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The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.
