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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You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.
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One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
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Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.
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Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
