Benedict Anderson Quotes
The ideal way to start interesting research, at least in my view, is to depart from a problem or question to which you do not know the answer.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot of talk about us doing 'Sucker Punch' in 3-D, but I'm still waiting to see.
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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You have a place in my heart no one else could have.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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The ideal way to start interesting research, at least in my view, is to depart from a problem or question to which you do not know the answer.
