Michel Foucault Quotes
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Quotes to Explore
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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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She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.
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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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I was always in front of the camera. My mom was really passionate about photography - I have pictures of my whole life. I've always just been in front of my mom's camera and it's always comfortable to me.
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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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We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like your creative-writing class in school. You know, you have the outline and then you just kind of plug the stuff in the little map you've made.
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That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
