Bernard Williams Quotes
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.Bernard Williams
Quotes to Explore
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
Candice Swanepoel -
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
Valerie Plame -
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Ingrid Bergman -
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
Karl Liebknecht -
I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
Olivia Thirlby -
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
E. V. Lucas
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
Parker Posey -
I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
Victoria Moran -
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
Ian Mckellen -
My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
Damian Marley -
People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
T. B. Joshua
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
Parker Posey -
No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
Magic Johnson -
I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
T. J. Miller -
Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
Quavo Migos -
We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.
Carly Fiorina -
I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.
Sam Hunt
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose -
People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
Fab Five Freddy -
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus -
I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick -
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
Bernard Williams