Overdetermined Quotes

#1. The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.

Jose Alaniz

#2. Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Reinhard Bendix

#3. Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined.

-- Making Magic, p. 23

Randall Styers

#4. To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

Teresa De Lauretis

#5. Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

Barry Bonds

#6. I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. One of the first things that you learn as a stand-up is, you're the boss. It's your stage, and don't screw with me because I'll make you look bad, which I had to do, because you wind up with drunks and loud people.

Bob Newhart

#8. We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Fredrik Bajer

#9. Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

Eric Butterworth

#10. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. - Heb. 10:19

A.W. Tozer

#11. I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#12. A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Charles Wheelan

#13. Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Bessie Coleman

#14. On a quick side note, I would argue that
much like Samuel L. Jackson
I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.

Eugene Mirman

#15. I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.

Mandy Patinkin

#16. The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger