Arthur L. Williams, Jr. Quotes

Remember, before you can be great, you've got to be good. Before you can be good, you've got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you've got to try.

Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • American
  • America
  • High

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Television

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Training

• I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Job
  • Black

• I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Advice

• I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Guy

• I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Deep
  • Gratitude
  • Emotions

• Scripture tells us that in our sufferings there is glory, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Sometimes the truths of these words are hard to see. Right now, those words test us. Because the people of Dallas, people across the country, are suffering.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Character

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • World

• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Age
  • Science
  • Cold

• The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran

• Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Abuse

• When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• Remember, before you can be great, you've got to be good. Before you can be good, you've got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you've got to try.

  

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
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  • Great
  • Bad