Michel Foucault Quotes
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
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From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
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An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
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He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
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As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.
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I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
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It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?
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Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history.
