Bernard Williams Quotes
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.
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Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
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The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.
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I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
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Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.
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Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
