Bernard Williams Quotes
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
Bernard Williams
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. Chidambaram
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
Gabriela Sabatini
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
Padmasree Warrior
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
Adam Cohen
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A wave do ye displace, A shield do ye extend To the travelling woe, And violent exertion through grief. And inflaming through fury Between heaven and earth.
Taliesin
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When I saw 'Incendios,' it changed the way I looked at my life... and my family. It was very strong. I believe that theater has that power.
Diego Luna
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In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.
Diane Ackerman
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If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
Ben Lerner
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No one can fill Senator Daniel K. Inouye's shoes - but together, all of us, we can try to walk in his footsteps.
Brian Schatz
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Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
Bernard Williams