"Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself."

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Source : Pierre Bourdieu (2014). “Picturing Algeria”, p.32, Columbia University Press

Pierre Bourdieu

#Algeria Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.”
“The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the obstacles we face. He has shown the way to gain strength during our struggles. With His assistance, we have the ability to succeed. Listen to His words of counsel and comfort: 'Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.”
“The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.”
“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. xlvii, 1930.
“If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?”
“You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

Source : "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.
“Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.”
“You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.”

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