Ernest Gellner Quotes
Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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Craft is everything.
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It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".
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We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
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I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.
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When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy
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I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.
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You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
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I think most of the American people were upset during the Zoe Baird nomination that she hired an illegal alien. That was what upset them more than the fact the she did not pay Social Security taxes.
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.
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If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.
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My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good.
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I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
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Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug
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If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars, they have a strain of decency and conservatism that maybe even their filmmakers don't even recognize. Yet, we cross our fingers that by mistake, liberal filmmakers and liberal producers are going to by mistake make conservative movies. We have to become invested in it, or else we have no excuse to complain.
