Billy Dee Williams Quotes
I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.
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One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.
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Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.
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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
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I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.
