Bernard Williams Quotes
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.Bernard Williams
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci -
I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
Maggie Q -
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
Kaley Cuoco -
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
Danica McKellar -
The job as a coach is difficult.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Haley Joel Osment -
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
Sam Neill -
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal -
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown -
At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
Tahl Raz -
I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
Natalie Zea
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
Wayne Grady -
I just have an inability to lie.
Paloma Faith -
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk
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Of the American institutionalists, his most generous comments concerned Commons’s work, work that he regarded as hopelessly unsystematic but highly ‘suggestive and valuable’
Frank Knight -
You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.
Natalie Portman -
We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.
Du Yun -
'See, there’s a bit of a problem here. It’s true that editors are always begging for something new and different, but if you’re dumb enough to try to give it to them they don’t recognize it. When they ask for ‘different,’ what they mean is something right down the good old ‘different’ groove.'
Frederik Pohl -
I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.
Alan Alda -
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bernard Williams