Bernard Williams Quotes
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
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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.
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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.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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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.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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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.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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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.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.
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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
