Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
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Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
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Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
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I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.
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As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.
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Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.
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If you can imagine the delight of visiting a theme park where lasting memories are made, we envision 'Sky' will sometimes feel like that.
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Homicide at its best stinks to high heaven because everyone walking this earth has a closet he’d prefer leaving closed and homicide rarely knocks before entering.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
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You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.
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The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
