Bernard Williams Quotes
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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If you're going to do something, do it with style!
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Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
