Michel Foucault Quotes
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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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.
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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.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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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.
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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.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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I like to work.
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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?'
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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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.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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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.
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Nicklaus at the 86 Masters. At his age, with his game at the time.
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I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.
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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
