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.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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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.
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I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
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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.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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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.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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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.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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People suck, and that's my contention. I can prove it on a scratch paper and pen. Give me a fucking Etch-a-sketch, I'll do it in three minutes. The proof, the fact, the factorum. I'll show my work, case closed. I'm tired of this back-slapping 'Aren't humanity neat?' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are.
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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.
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'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
