Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

Pierre Bourdieu

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• They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

  

  Larry King
  • Live
  • King
  • Television

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Coffee
  • Grandmother
  • Taste

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• I love Channing Tatum!

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • I Love

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • May
  • Know
  • Alive

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Great
  • Career
  • Best

• It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Music
  • Done
  • Me

• I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Job
  • Year
  • Week

• I'm not obsessive, like I have to have the best butt or the best abs, but I like the idea of feeling strong and healthy. It's important to feel good about myself physically.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Wonder
  • Revolution

• Phoebus is dead, ephebe. But Phoebus was A name for something that never could be named. There was a project for the sun and is.There is a project for the sun. The sun Must bear no name, gold flourisher, but be In the difficulty of what it is to be.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Sun
  • Gold

• I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • True
  • Daughter
  • Story

• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • May
  • Married
  • Three

• Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Done
  • Game

• Whenever people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I was older, I would always say that I wanted to be a singer. When I was 12, I decided I would do something about it, so I started writing songs.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • People
  • Writing

• A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.

  

  Emile Capouya
  • Teacher
  • Playing
  • Explain

• If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu