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Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

Pierre Bourdieu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: french
Birth: August 1, 1930 - January 23, 2002

Topics

Work Education Culture Differences

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

Jenny Lewis

Myself Artist Never Band Always

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

John Lithgow

Father Thinking Artist Feeling Like

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Meryl Streep

People Me Young Way Honored Who

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Steven Wright

Coffee Employees Take Breaks

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

Robbie Robertson

Mother Music Me Sometimes Out Big

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

Rory O'Malley

Heart Me Brain Doing Stronger You

I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.

Romy Madley Croft

Time Myself First Time First How

My style is to have a big vision, a big commitment.

Masayoshi Son

Vision Style Commitment Big

The fact that we have one out of four people in this state on Medicaid is unsustainable; it's unaffordable, and we need to create jobs in this state, not more government programs to cover people.

Matt Bevin

Government People Create More Need

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

Mimi Kennedy

Happy Democracy Story Facts Voting

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Lorna Luft

Life Past Pain Me Shadows Out

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

Winnie Byanyima

Justice Fighting Social Justice Will