Billy Dee Williams Quotes

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

Billy Dee Williams

• Good
• Power
• Water
• Ego
• Abuse

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• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Impact

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Happiness
  • Absence
  • Striving

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Small
  • Act

• I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Hair

• Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Important
  • Game
  • Amazing

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Think
  • Find
  • Waves

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Stand
  • Street

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I love to smile.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Love
  • Smile
  • I Love

• The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • World
  • Business
  • Problem

• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Opportunity
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Girl
  • Technology
  • Promise

• Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • School
  • Able
  • Office

• Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Car

• Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Good
  • Power
  • Water