Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Pierre Bourdieu

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• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• All the media are horrible.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Media
  • Horrible

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Light

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in each other's home. They don't see their finished room until the end of the second day. They have no say what happens in their own home.

  

  Paige Davis
  • Home
  • Night
  • Day

• Since I was drafted by the Blackhawks, the people of Chicago have really embraced me and treated me with nothing but respect.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

  

  Gallagher
  • Language
  • Blue
  • Surprise

• When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Down
  • Lie
  • Coaching

• I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Friends
  • You

• I love overcoming challenges and fear.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Fear
  • Challenges
  • Overcoming

• Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Service
  • Information
  • Profound

• There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Culture

• I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Doubt

• The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

  Chaka Fattah
  • People
  • American

• I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Up
  • Coward

• Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

  

  Albert Gubay
  • People
  • Stupid

• We keep on fighting, we keep on playing. We won tonight and we're going to try to keep on winning.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Art

• I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wage levels

• Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu