Roy H. Williams Quotes
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.
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HE WORLD LOOKS AT YOU and sees one person; you look in the mirror and see another.
