Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

Ricky Williams

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• No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Support
  • Emotional

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fan
  • Huge

• We are confident that shared values of Wockhardt Hospitals and Fortis Healthcare will form the basis for our continued success in the future.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Future
  • Success
  • Health care

• People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Adverse

• I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Player
  • TV
  • Sworn

• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • History
  • First
  • Civilization

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Financial
  • Priorities
  • Top

• I think it's just my nature to stay on the outside so that I can understand and observe.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Nature

• I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Black

• I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

  

  Joe Penny
  • People

• Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Money

• Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Good
  • American
  • Bad

• Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Police

• Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Up
  • Night

• I'm action-oriented.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Action

• Growing up in Buffalo, you always hated the Dolphins, but I just remember my one friend always liked the opposite team, and he liked the Dolphins, so I remember always going at it with him.

  

  Dan Gronkowski
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Question
  • Survival
  • Empathy

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • World
  • Character
  • Strong

• Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Insane
  • This Life

• It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Kind
  • Gay
  • Prejudice

• That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Live
  • Society
  • Free

• I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

  

  Ricky Williams