Anthony Kiedis Quotes
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
Quotes to Explore
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
