Michel Foucault
Philosopher, Social Theorist
"Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?"
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Factories
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Blake Lively
Actress
"Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"The Human heart is an idol factory."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach."
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"Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination."
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"A love of nature keeps no factories busy."
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"Our brain is the factory of the emotions"
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"Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!"
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"Men are idol factories."
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"You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did."
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"We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories."
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"Hollywood is a mirage factory."
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"I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off."
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"A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood."
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"John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'"
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"It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory."
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"Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running."
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