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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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome.
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You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
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Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
