Billy Williams Quotes
Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.
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I was not intimidated by Kessler's record.
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It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.
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I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
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Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while.
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Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.
