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.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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No man is infallible.
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Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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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.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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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.
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My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
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There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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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.
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You ever taunt me with Tasha again," she said in a harsh whisper when they broke the kiss to gasp for air, "and I will geld you." Raphael winced. "That would take at least a day to repair. Are you sure you want to lose my....attributes for that long?
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I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.
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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
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Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
