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James S. Coleman Quotes

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

James S. Coleman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 12, 1926 - March 25, 1995

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Change Attention More Difficult Task

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Melissa Manchester

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I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

Michael Eric Dyson

Dog God People Start More Within

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Amy Hill

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The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

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My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

Dawn French

Daughter Me Care Famous She Gone

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

Brian Wilson

You I Can Know Movies Write Film

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Annaleigh Ashford

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Ashwin Sanghi

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Piet Mondrian

Nature Sky I Am Now Without Natural

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

Richard Rogers

Love Mother Children Being Very

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

Nick Sagan

Culture American Because Sci-Fi Our

We fell in love with wrestling, and then we really wanted to break barriers, and we now get to do that because that's evolved beyond the ring.

Nikki Bella

Love Now Ring Beyond Wrestling Get