Dontrelle Willis Quotes

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Dontrelle Willis

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• When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Friends
  • Common
  • Fast

• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Hand
  • Feel

• I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Politics
  • Look
  • Ought

• I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Career
  • Taken
  • Enough

• I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Tough

• To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Women
  • Truth

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Changes
  • Emotions
  • Colors

• Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Film
  • Everything

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • God
  • Day
  • Politics

• I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Thought

• There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Think
  • New
  • Finding

• Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Like
  • Dreamers
  • Hong Kong

• People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Destroy
  • Meeting

• There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Feet

• There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Aunt

• But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Up
  • She
  • Words

• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Choice
  • Human being
  • Injustice

• Because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Knew
  • Unwavering

• If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the divine, and bring forth your soul's legacy into the present moment.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Why
  • May
  • Soul

• Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

  

  Dontrelle Willis