Bernard Williams Quotes
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
Yousuf Karsh -
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik -
The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.
Dana Boente -
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor -
We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
Candice S. Miller
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
Wendy Davis -
Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
Florence Henderson -
Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
Wayne Coyne -
It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
Owen Hart
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
Irwin Winkler -
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
V. S. Naipaul -
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
D. H. Lawrence -
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant -
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi -
The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.
Eddie Murphy
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Those who protect and save other animals lead the way in protecting and saving humanity and earth.
Anthony Douglas Williams -
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann -
What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.
Bill Clinton -
At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead -
I'm a civilian, a citizen.
David Remnick -
'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
Bernard Williams