Billy Dee Williams Quotes
I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.
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I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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As long as you put me out on the court, I was gonna play hard.
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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
