Sociologue Quotes

#1. I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

Agnes Varda

#2. I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct.

Robin Wright

#3. Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Stewart Brand

#4. Always Remember: He Can Do! She Can Do! Why Not Me?!

Tae Yun Kim

#5. I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation ... the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]

Julian Barnes

#6. Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is called the still point.

Brunonia Barry

#7. The point of departure is a lack of
explanations.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#8. What we need now is endless courage.

Katherine Anne Porter

#9. Love what you do; Do what you love.

Wayne W. Dyer

#10. I'm not interested in myself per se. I'm interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.

David Shields

#11. No one will know who we are ... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

Malcolm X