Michel Foucault Quotes
One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.
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Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
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I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
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I don’t care if she knew about this. She ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab.
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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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Charisma defined As usual, the Greeks had a word for it. Charisma originated with an ancient Greek word meaning ‘gift’. The early Christians later used it to describe ‘gifts from God that allowed receivers to carry out extraordinary feats such as healing and prophesy.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
