Joe Williams Quotes

It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

Joe Williams

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• There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Live
  • Fools

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • Just
  • Clear

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Answer

• A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Just
  • News
  • Steal

• And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Government
  • Security
  • How

• I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Trying
  • Always

• In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Black
  • Right
  • Africa

• For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Me
  • Christmas

• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Book

• I have never met a man like my father. He is so mad, terrible and vehement at the same time. Because of him, I never knew anything other than passion. When I began to meet other people I saw that it wasn’t normal.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Time
  • Father

• As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Gold

• P. 25.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Money
  • Value

• When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

  

  Larry Bird
  • School
  • Think
  • Thought

• The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Energy

• My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

  

  David Harewood
  • Work
  • Success
  • Parents

• This moment in American history is what Antonio Gramsci called the 'interregnum'-the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • American
  • History
  • Space

• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Change
  • Purpose
  • Ability

• It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

  

  Joe Williams