Michel Foucault Quotes
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.
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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
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When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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Remember that all is opinion.
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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
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Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
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I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
