Michel Foucault Quotes
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
Taslima Nasrin -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
Jack Nicholson -
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz -
Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Xun Kuang -
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken -
It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
Carlton Fisk -
It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
Imogen Heap -
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
Jackie Robinson
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
Eddie Marsan -
I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
Zachary Levi -
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
Malcolm Fraser -
The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
Baba Kalyani
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Irvin S. Cobb -
Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama -
Rid self of suspicions by contemplating love.
Aelred of Rievaulx -
The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
Michel Foucault