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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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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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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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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A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
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One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
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I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'
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Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.
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The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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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.
