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

Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it.

Ricky Williams

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• I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Life
  • Train

• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Movie
  • High
  • Black

• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • True
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  • Mom

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
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• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

  

  Vanity
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  • Brain
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• The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Down
  • Exploring

• I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• I wish we had more diversity.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Wish
  • Diversity
  • I Wish

• Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Sex

• I grew up in my neighborhood with salsa, of course bachata, but also hip-hop, Nirvana - it was just like a mixed culture. It was a beautiful thing for me because at the moment I started creating music, having all these different sounds and elements, it was very organic because I grew up with all these types different music.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
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  • Different

• There will be no name-calling when I disagree with anyone, no disparaging remarks toward anyone, no taking sole credit for collective achievements or blaming others when things go wrong.

  

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• No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet no one is doing anything about it.

  

  Matthew Walker
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• I almost had to exhaust myself at modeling before I could say, 'O.K., I'm ready for school.'

  

  Christy Turlington
  • School

• I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.

  

  James Marsden
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of emerging market economies.

  

  Janet Yellen
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• The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

  

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• I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there.

  

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• If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

  

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  • Prayer
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• I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

  

  John Cornforth
  • Home
  • Mother
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• A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.

  

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  • May
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

  

  Bill Janklow
  • World
  • Rest

• The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Time

• Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it.

  

  Ricky Williams