Bernard Williams Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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I love to show off my ability in a nice way.
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
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You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.
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Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
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You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
