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

I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.

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• I have worked with some great directors.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Great
  • Directors
  • Some

• Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Speak

• You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Up
  • Look
  • Young

• I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Broken

• Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

  

  Aneurin Barnard

• Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Art
  • Power
  • Small

• People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Choices
  • Broken

• It's my job to accept my youth, to spread my story, to let people know who I am as an individual, because there's so many people who are blinded and think less of me because of my skin color.

  

  Khalid
  • People
  • Job
  • Color

• I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.

  

  Charlotte Casiraghi

• I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • School
  • Girl
  • Popular

• When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered me a job on her tour playing acoustic guitar and singing background vocals, and they thought I would be a really good fit for it.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Good
  • Job
  • Band

• You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

  

  Marcia Angell
  • People
  • Life

• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Real
  • War

• Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

  

  Edward Norton

• You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

  

  Kristin Hersh
  • Money
  • Emotional

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

  

  Johan Cruyff

• We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

  

  Alexander Schmemann
  • God
  • Religion
  • Idols

• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  

  Richard Neal
  • People
  • Complicated
  • Monstrosity

• What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Change
  • Will
  • Cuba

• I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.

  

  Ricky Williams