Michel Foucault Quotes
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.
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George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
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The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.
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I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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The first space walk, it's really got your attention. You know you're travelling eight times faster than a rifle bullet, and you're outside. Second space walk, you're a lot more relaxed, you're looking over your shoulder, admiring the view of Earth. What was funny about the third space walk was that mission control in Houston called and said, "Take a moment and enjoy the view".
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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I think we're going to have to take a hard look about what more we can do to prevent this kind of lone wolf attack.
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All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.
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Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
