Billy Dee Williams Quotes

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Billy Dee Williams

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• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Running
  • Feel

• I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Turn

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago

• I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Faith
  • Grammar

• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Book
  • Air
  • Guilty

• I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Hard
  • Lose
  • Weight

• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Earth

• Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Players
  • Most

• Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Think
  • Child

• People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody – running back, quarterback, wide receiver – make the plays that Vince Young made today.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • People
  • Today
  • Running

• Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Family
  • Home
  • True

• Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, 'Wait a minute. He's not allowed to make mistakes,' - my mind.

  

  George Benson
  • World
  • Great
  • Mind

• Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Good
  • Player

• I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.

  

  Michael Tubbs
  • Because
  • Girlfriend
  • Producer

• One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Advice
  • Flaws
  • Biggest

• Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

  

  Billy Dee Williams