Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
Everywhere I go, I hear 'Welcome back.' But everywhere I have been, I have always been with myself. I'm with myself now more than ever. It's funny people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.
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If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
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More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.
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New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."
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It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
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You tell yourself: I’ll be gone To some other land, some other sea, To a city far lovelier than this Could ever have been or hoped to be - … You will find no new lands, no other seas.
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Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.
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Everywhere I go, I hear 'Welcome back.' But everywhere I have been, I have always been with myself. I'm with myself now more than ever. It's funny people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
