Bernard Williams Quotes
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
Sally Hawkins -
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
Young Thug -
A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
Dan Shechtman -
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
Orson Pratt
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
Lara Stone -
No man is infallible.
Pat Buckley -
Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
Sam Simon -
All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
Baz Luhrmann -
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley -
Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
Halsey -
My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
Rachel Zoe -
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
Rachel Sklar -
There are few secrets in football. So execute.
Hank Stram -
Im Reiche der Zwecke hat alles entweder einen Preis oder eine Würde. Was einen Preis hat, an dessen Stelle kann auch etwas anderes als Äquivalent gesetzt werden; was dagegen über allen Preis erhaben ist, mithin kein Äquivalent verstattet, das hat eine Würde.
Immanuel Kant
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
Mel Brooks -
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.
Stanley Baldwin -
Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.
Helen Keller -
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
Douglas Coupland -
I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
Dawn Fraser -
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
Bernard Williams