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

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

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• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Want
  • Actor
  • The Right Thing

• After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Think
  • Me

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• There is only one me.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Me
  • Only

• Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I'm not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don't feel up to. It's not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don't know how people are able to manage that. I don't know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • Up
  • Alone

• As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Real

• Goals are what count for me. It's not about a battle with defenders. Fighting hard, giving everything and working hard on the field you have to combine with the goals you score. It doesn't matter if defenders want to battle with me or not; I will just be trying to do my job as well as I possibly can.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Giving

• I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could crack the case if I just had that file.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • School
  • Police

• I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

  

  Jami Attenberg

• Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.

  

  David Lauren
  • America
  • Fun
  • Popular

• Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

  

  Dave Barry
  • People
  • Popular
  • Skiing

• It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Music
  • Honesty

• My first job ever was selling balloons with my brother at parades when I was about six years old. My father wanted us to learn about money, how to make it, save it, spend it, etc.

  

  Donna Lynne Champlin
  • Money
  • Job
  • Father

• This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

  

  John Searle
  • Business
  • Car

• Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Different
  • Way
  • Feels

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Mistakes
  • Back

• No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

  

  Ann Romney
  • Work

• When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

  

  Ricky Williams