Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
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I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.
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I keep hearing about muthafucking Harry Potter. Who is this muthafucker?
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We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
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I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.
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I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
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After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record.
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I don't like doing the same runs. I like to mix it up a lot.
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I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
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When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
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A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.
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I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
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I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.
