Roy H. Williams Quotes
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.
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With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities.
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To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.
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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.
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It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.
