Benedict Anderson Quotes
What I am proposing is that Nationalism has to be understood, by aligning it not with self-consciously held political ideologies, but with large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which — as well as against which — it came into being.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.
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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
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Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.
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Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.
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In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.
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Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
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Sam's light-cycle, the car, and the jets are new of course, and other stuff. The new ones are sleeker and so contemporary, that if you could put them in a car design show they would hold up.
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What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.
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Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.
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Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
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People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.
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I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in Europe. The alt-right believes in racially separate nation-states.
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What I am proposing is that Nationalism has to be understood, by aligning it not with self-consciously held political ideologies, but with large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which — as well as against which — it came into being.
