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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• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Band
  • Guys
  • Instruments

• 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

• Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• All the media are horrible.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Media
  • Horrible

• I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Way
  • Day
  • Hip Hop

• 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
  • Respect
  • Me

• 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

• I think every Internet user likes personalization.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Think
  • Internet
  • Likes

• 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

• If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Fear
  • Faith

• I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • True
  • Death

• The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Violence
  • Population
  • Gullible

• I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

  

  John Bright
  • Women
  • May
  • Hope

• 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