Michel Foucault Quotes
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
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I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
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I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.
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It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.
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I was one of those young girls that had no fear. I had goals. I knew that everything I touched would turn to gold.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.
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If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.
