Ernest Gellner Quotes
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
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What's in your soul is in your soul.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."
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I'm trying to be a complete player and have every shot in the game.
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Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
