Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu

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• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Doubt

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Safe
  • Daring

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Control
  • Beginning

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Symbols
  • Poetry Is

• We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

  

  Chen Shui-bian
  • People
  • Decision
  • Positive

• It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Good
  • School
  • Home

• Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. (From the first Cosmos: ASO episode, Standing Up in the Milky Way.)

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Science
  • Community

• The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu
  • Science