Michel Foucault Quotes

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

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• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Like
  • Reach

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • World
  • Marriage
  • Celebrate

• I hate having my picture taken.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Picture

• I like to work.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Work
  • Like

• I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • America
  • Running
  • Like

• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

  

  Ovid
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Minds

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Job
  • Play

• My longing for truth was a single prayer.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Truth
  • Single
  • Prayer

• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Language

• My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • She
  • Culture

• I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Voice
  • Musical
  • Decent

• Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Own
  • Restaurant

• My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Gun
  • Never Forget
  • Muggers

• I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Time
  • Great

• We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

  

  James Turrell
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

  

  Michel Foucault
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