Ernest Gellner Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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The truth sustains me.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won't read them. It's fine if some readers think of them as real. It's just not the way that I think of them.
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I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.
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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
