Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
I look very foolish. To a lot of people I look foolish in what I'm doing and I understand that. The only thing that matters is how I feel and if I let how they feel affect me it'll change how I feel.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
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There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
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The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
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In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
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It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.
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Many communities have turned a blind eye to what goes on inside funeral homes, as many people prefer not to know the ins and outs of the business. In addition, grieving customers in need of funeral goods and services may not be in a healthy state of mind to make financial decisions.
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
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I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.
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I look very foolish. To a lot of people I look foolish in what I'm doing and I understand that. The only thing that matters is how I feel and if I let how they feel affect me it'll change how I feel.
