Bernard Williams Quotes
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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I just want to do my job.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.
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Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.
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Because life’s too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in.
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Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
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Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
