Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.
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The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
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Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.
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When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.
