Billy Dee Williams Quotes

I think I've been very fortunate, considering the obstacles that I had to deal with, you know, just being - by virtue of being a brown, lovely, brown-skinned man. But on the other hand, I've been able to make a good living, and I've been able to take care of my family, which is most important to me.

Billy Dee Williams

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• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Good
  • Best
  • Practice

• Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Family
  • Support

• I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Perspective
  • Critical

• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Car
  • Movies

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Good
  • Past

• Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • Important
  • Exercise

• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Up
  • Important
  • Nature

• My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Year

• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Good
  • Achieve
  • Finding

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Good
  • School
  • Business

• The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Life
  • Live
  • Snow

• Ten days that shook the world.

  

  John Reed
  • World

• I used to think I was a night owl. I realized I'm not, because I have energy at night, but I'm not as focused and productive when I try to get things done.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Done
  • Night
  • Energy

• I think I've been very fortunate, considering the obstacles that I had to deal with, you know, just being - by virtue of being a brown, lovely, brown-skinned man. But on the other hand, I've been able to make a good living, and I've been able to take care of my family, which is most important to me.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family