Bernard Williams Quotes
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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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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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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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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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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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 never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
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Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
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My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
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I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
