Michel Foucault Quotes

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

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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.

  

  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 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

• Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• The conscious side of woman corresponds to the emotional side of man, not to his 'mind.' Mind makes up the soul, or better, the 'animus' of woman, and just as the anima of a man consists of inferior relatedness, full of affect, so the animus of woman consists of inferior judgments, or better, opinions.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Soul

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• 'I will say this once.' Edward turned to the others. 'I’m in command on this mission. Do not, at any time, attempt to wrest control from me. If what you see dismays you, avert your eyes.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Time

• I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

  

  James Salter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lost

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

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Time
  • Place
  • Memory