Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.
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I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
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I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.
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I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.
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I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
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I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
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I am so happy, so in love, and so content.
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I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.
