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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Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.
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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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My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
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It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.
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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.
