Michel Foucault Quotes
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.Michel Foucault
Quotes to Explore
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart Tolle -
Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston -
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
Tammy Baldwin -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
Felix Dennis -
If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
Victoria Justice -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson -
I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
Irving Stone
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
Yael Naim -
I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
Nader al-Masri -
One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
Yuna -
Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
C. Thomas Howell -
I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.
Ville Valo HIM -
I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.
Xosha Roquemore
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
Rachel Bloom -
It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.
M. Shadows -
Jerome was dyslexic until he was twelve, before it became fashionable. And he broke every pair of glasses I bought him. He hated wearing glasses. He was good at breaking things. Especially relationships. Just like his father.
Peter Greenaway -
The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar -
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.
Michel Foucault