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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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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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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Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.
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There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.
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Capitalism is in crisis.
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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
