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.Ernest Gellner
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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.
Walt Whitman -
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
Oscar Robertson -
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.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
J. Cole -
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.
Rachel Bilson
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
Saint Bernard -
Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
Cam Gigandet -
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
Carice van Houten -
I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
Kat Graham -
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.
Vera Wang -
My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
Laura Prepon
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I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.
Jamie Dimon -
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.
Jess Walter -
I love living downtown.
Carlson Young -
It is worth noting that 'too big to fail' is not simply about size. A big institution is 'too big' when there is an expectation that government will do whatever it takes to rescue that institution from failure, thus bestowing an effective risk premium subsidy. Reforms to end 'too big to fail' must address the causes of this expectation.
Jerome Powell -
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Chief Joseph -
Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.
Cory Gardner
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I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.
Hakeem Seriki -
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.
Northrop Frye -
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
Dita Von Teese -
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.
Ernest Gellner