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

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

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• I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Group
  • Mexico

• If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Real
  • High
  • Technology

• When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • For Her

• We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Opportunities

• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People

• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • War
  • Peace

• I'm way too hypersensitive.

  

  Kurt Sutter

• I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

  

  Lili Simmons
  • Trying
  • School
  • Friends

• I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

  

  David Cone
  • Success
  • Popular

• I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • People
  • Proud
  • Rock

• They're so generous, the American fans. They send money to the various charities I support. I tried to raise a little bit of money to send to Nepal, and they were straight in with thousands of dollars.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Money
  • American
  • Support

• I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

  

  Elliot Perlman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • Trust
  • Challenge

• I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Money
  • City
  • Fighting

• At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • School
  • Age

• We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

  

  Gene Ween
  • Money
  • Certain
  • Records

• The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

  

  Carl Pomerance
  • Science
  • Proud
  • Numbers

• Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January 2017 and that might be an interesting story to tell.

  

  Ed Gordon
  • Interesting
  • Depression
  • I Think

• It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Summer

• As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

  

  Ricky Williams