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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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
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Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
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I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.
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The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
