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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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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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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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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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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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
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There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
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Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
