Bernard Williams Quotes
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bernard Williams
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci -
I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
Maggie Q -
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
Kaley Cuoco -
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
Danica McKellar -
The job as a coach is difficult.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Haley Joel Osment -
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
Sam Neill -
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal -
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown -
At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
Tahl Raz -
I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
Natalie Zea
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
Wayne Grady -
I just have an inability to lie.
Paloma Faith -
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk
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Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, & I know where the nuts are.
Neil Gaiman -
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden -
I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.
Marina and the Diamonds -
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
John Chamberlain -
My first horror film was - well, I don't know. 'Bless the Child' is sort of genre, but 'May' was such a cult hit that after that, I just started getting offers for horror. I think I got a little bit pigeonholed in it right off of 'May' because there was just such a large response to that film.
Angela Bettis -
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bernard Williams