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 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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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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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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Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.
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It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.
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When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
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Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
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Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
