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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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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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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I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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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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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man’s wish to rest for a moment - an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
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White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
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A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
