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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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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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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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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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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We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
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Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.
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You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.
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My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
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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.
