Ernest Gellner Quotes
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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I am an inventor of music.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
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When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.
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So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
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You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
