Michel Foucault Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
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The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
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One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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Children - change that to infants - dream of their past lives, remembering; for example, how to walk and talk. They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. They are guided by memories that they later forget.
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What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
