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
  • Me
  • 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
  • Child

• 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
  • Business
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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
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Blind

• 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
  • Up
  • Music
  • 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.

  

  David Ige

• 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
  • Sleep

• 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
  • Growth

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

  

  Buddha
  • Life
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  • True

• We want Lyft to meet your needs, whether going out to a nice date or event and want a nicer car, or if you're just trying to get to work every day and need something affordable.

  

  Logan Green
  • Work
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  • Nice

• It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Pain

• I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • New Life
  • Transformations
  • Zombie States

• Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

  

  Edward Carey
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Dark

• I've never dated; I've always been in relationships.

  

  Priyanka Chopra

• I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Disciplined
  • Life Is Short
  • Having A Good 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