Ernest Gellner Quotes
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
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I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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I love living downtown.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.
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The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!
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No country wanted to pay for our rescue, including the United States. The dictator of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo, took a few Jews, thinking they might help bring some prosperity to his tiny, impoverished country. I have heard that they did.
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In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.
