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.

Ricky Williams

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• I have worked with some great directors.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Great
  • Directors
  • Some

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Kristin Hersh
  • Money
  • Emotional

• When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Business

• When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Band

• The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Men

• I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.

  

  Jamie Waylett
  • Jewelry

• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Great
  • Done
  • Fame

• If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Stories

• Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.

  

  Danielle Brooks
  • Time
  • Live
  • Dying

• There is no road, the road is made by walking.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Road
  • Walking

• I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Hope

• 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