Neal Ascherson Quotes
I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
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The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.
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Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
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Contrary to Western evangelicalism’s obsession with the individual, discipleship is and always was a group project. No one in the New Testament followed independent of other followers.
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There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.
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Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make real peace? World peace through hatred and force is impossible.
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I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.
