Michel Foucault Quotes
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.
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And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
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Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
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I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.
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Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.
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If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.
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Every day of my life, I come against a conservative who wants me to shut up. I do believe I'm right and they are wrong.
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What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.
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The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
