Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German.
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RAMI MALEK I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat... NOLAN NORTH My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very,... LAURENT BRANCOWITZ There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting bett... SEBASTIAN THRUN I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerin... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - n... DAN ROSENSWEIG Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other ba... ROBBIE ROBERTSON With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. I... ALIA SHAWKAT Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'... 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LAURA BUSH I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclai... RENE RICARD I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the h... HERSCHEL WALKER I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite dir... AKIVA SCHAFFER Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of conc... TOM SELLECK I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's bee... JILL SCOTT I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having... CHRIS ROBERSON Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which see... GREG LYNN I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconsc... GOTYE Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not v... WHIT STILLMAN I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sister... KATE UPTON In productions such as 'Anna Bolena' and 'Rigoletto,' the costumes are tailored, and... STEPHEN COSTELLO The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be ... AUDRA MCDONALD I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children... WALTER MOSLEY French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies,... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L... KAL PENN Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for ... MARK HAMILL I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think ... VERONICA ROTH I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost ... 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I feel fortunate to have been able to work on... ADAM DRIVER It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and t... BRIDGET FONDA I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at... ED SPELEERS German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebre... JANEANE GAROFALO Nick's just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They're very 'American Gothic,... MEGAN MULLALLY There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peace... GEORGE CLOONEY One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There... MARGARET CHO It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read eve... HELENA MATTSSON I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really ... 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ANSEL ELGORT Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belo... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. TERI GARR I'm blessed to have a dad who's always there for me and a mom who's always there for me,... TIFFANY TRUMP It's weird to make new friends, but we're three seasons in with 'The Exes,' and now ... DONALD FAISON I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l... RICHARD DAWKINS Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and ... CHRIS PINE I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick ... MARY BERRY I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not... CAT DEELEY It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it... ANTHONY FAUCI We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different relig... RIMA FAKIH I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel ver... HUGH DANCY I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often. RACHEL KUSHNER
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MICHEL FABER Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed wi... MICHEL FOUCAULT Where there is power, there is resistance. MICHEL FOUCAULT The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyse... MICHEL FOUCAULT Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the perso... MICHEL LEIRIS The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad,... MICHEL FOUCAULT Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps n... MICHEL FOUCAULT The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doct... 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ALLEN MICHEL When you're putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you're dramatically increasing the ris... ALLEN MICHEL They have to try to minimize each one of these risks until they finally enter the actual battle of r... ALLEN MICHEL Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks.” “You might not think so if you were a... MICHEL FABER Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too o... MICHEL ONFRAY I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitut... MICHEL ONFRAY The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full st... MICHEL FOUCAULT By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife enge... MICHEL ONFRAY Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of powe... MICHEL FOUCAULT We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unluck... MICHEL PATINI At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rar... HARTMUT MICHEL The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it. MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, inclu... MICHEL ONFRAY I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent averag... MICHEL FABER My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ... MICHEL GONDRY If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will ... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I have a big problem with Islam. 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with other men's wisdom. MICHEL EYQUEM The thing I fear most is fear. MICHEL EYQUEM The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. MICHEL EYQUEM My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never
happened. MICHEL EYQUEM No wind favors him who has no destined port. MICHEL EYQUEM I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be cov... MICHEL EYQUEM The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true
courage. MICHEL EYQUEM This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one ... MICHEL AOUN This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the ... MICHEL AOUN Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, MICHEL AOUN We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian contro... MICHEL AOUN The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explo... MICHEL AOUN one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon. MICHEL AOUN I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still op... MICHEL AOUN If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ... MICHEL AOUN The focus should be on making sure that the Palestinian infiltration is studied by the government an... MICHEL AOUN If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals. MICHEL AOUN We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected. MICHEL ALABY Ore doesn't have added value. MICHEL ALABY It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure. MICHEL ALABY The idea is to make the chambers speak to the governments to implement these proposals. MICHEL ALABY As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and i... MICHEL ALABY It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man. MICHEL ALABY According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan ... MICHEL ALABY We exported commodities to Somalia. MICHEL ALABY She showed interest in learning about the profile of the Brazilian companies so that they may partic... MICHEL ALABY Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is ... MICHEL ALABY As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps ... MICHEL FOUCAULT For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of though... MICHEL FOUCAULT When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push ... MICHEL GONDRY For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it ... MICHEL ONFRAY A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury ... MICHEL FABER That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking c... MICHEL GONDRY By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which h... MICHEL FABER Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find... MICHEL ONFRAY All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that... MICHEL GONDRY My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his pro... MICHEL FABER I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The mo... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from m... MICHEL FABER Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa... MICHEL FABER I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ... MICHEL FABER We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-wo... MICHEL FOUCAULT I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an... MICHEL SABBAH A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape. MICHEL SABBAH