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Michel De Certeau Quotes

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french

Topics

Politics Political Believing Become

They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.

Jimmy Carr

People Credit Go Say They Say Well

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

Jerry Seinfeld

Trapped Old Audience Because Prefer

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

Max Landis

Time Story Process Better Easy You

Whether you aim to lose 20 pounds or you want to launch your own business, mental strength is the key to long-term success. After all, you need fierce determination and tenacity to reach your greatest potential.

Amy Morin

Strength Success Business Key Fierce

If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, 'Oh, God, we'll never be able to tackle this!' But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Work God Diversity Deep You Say

My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.

Shreya Ghoshal

Music Teacher Travel Parents College

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

Russell Pearce

Problem Washington Fix Need States

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

Rohit Shetty

Nature I Am Camera Person Low-Key

In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he's drawing a pistol.

Michael Korda

Think Drawing Bad Will Side Only

You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

Loudon Wainwright III

Father Parents Me Wind Think You

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.

Jordin Sparks

Change Moving On People Cool Start

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

Didi Conn

City College Loved American Year