Ernest Gellner Quotes
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
Najib Mikati -
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt -
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers -
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia -
The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
Adam Hamilton -
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
J. Tillman
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie -
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
Famke Janssen -
My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
Kat Dennings -
Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.
KaDee Strickland -
My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
Halston Sage -
On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
Saint Patrick
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I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
Adam Grant -
What's in your soul is in your soul.
Whitney Houston -
I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.
Erykah Badu -
The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
Yanis Varoufakis -
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Albert Einstein
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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones -
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
Catharine MacKinnon -
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
Ernest Gellner