Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

Pierre Bourdieu

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• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

  Dan Webster
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• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

  

  Florence Henderson
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• I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

  

  Sally Quinn
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• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
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• Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

  

  Hank Ballard
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• I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

  

  Mason Cooley
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• Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

  

  Madame Roland
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• I eat like a kid. I like Chief Boyardee. Their Ravioli, but they have some stuff I've never seen in the real Italian food world. You ever been in a nice Italian restaurant? Hi how are you? Ummm id like to start with a nice bottle of Chanti and a couple of Caesar Salads and umm I'm going to have the Beef a'ronni. And some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the lady.

  

  Brian Regan
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• Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

  

  John Oliver

• For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
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• I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu