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Sam Richards Quotes

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

Sam Richards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 3, 1960

Topics

Me Sociology Way Human Study See

There's not a lot of light on television.

Andie MacDowell

Light Television Lot

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Jeffery Deaver

Create Try Hard Heroes Depth Very

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

Trevor Paglen

Power Government Democracy You Means

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.

Mary Matalin

Comfort Hustler Factor

Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

Lois Lowry

Eyes Myself I Am People Me Looking

Thanks to 'I'm Yours,' I'm probably set for a really long time. The pressure I put on myself, or what I hope my 'I Won't Give Up' does, is to make a difference in people's lives... With 'I'm Yours,' I got to go out and set my feet on different continents, and expose myself to different cultures and causes.

Jason Mraz

Hope Time Myself People Feet Long

I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows.

Dennis Farina

Thought Television Movies Same Going

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

Bootsy Collins

Creative Space Chance Chill Doing

I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Beautiful I Am Flowers Person Carry

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

Piper Perabo

School Practice High School You Play

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Thomas Paine

Good More Than Use Priests Hundred

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Lydia Leonard

Control You Know Accept Beyond Get