Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.
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I can paint in jail.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want some sites to understand my habits. It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with.
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It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
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The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
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An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
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When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.
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Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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I love the idea of my kids speaking Spanish. I wish I was better at it. Luckily, my son's really into Dora and Diego on Nick Jr. It makes it so much fun to have him tell me what things are in Spanish.
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Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.
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I'm always trying to play pranks on people and doing silliness, singing extremely badly and extremely loudly on set.
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I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.
