Benedict Anderson Quotes
It is important to keep in mind that to learn a language is not simply to learn a linguistic means of communication. It is also to learn the way of thinking and feeling of a people who speak and write a language which is different from ours. It is to learn the history and culture underlying their thoughts and emotions and so to learn to empathize with them.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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I am not honest.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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There is more to life than show business.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
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In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.
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In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, and I rather like to succeed.
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It is important to keep in mind that to learn a language is not simply to learn a linguistic means of communication. It is also to learn the way of thinking and feeling of a people who speak and write a language which is different from ours. It is to learn the history and culture underlying their thoughts and emotions and so to learn to empathize with them.
