Ernest Gellner Quotes
Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
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Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
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My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.
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Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.
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Don't call it a comeback I've been here for years.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
