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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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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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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There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
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One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.
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One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
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One thing I wish I'd been told in school is that my language is valid.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
