Wendy O. Williams Quotes
My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Sometimes I have a sense of what I'm seeing being a small fraction of what's there. Not always there, but probably more often than I realize. Something will come up, and I'll realize I'm thinking about the world a little differently than my friends.
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We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.
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In the end countries, like people, are alone, and the real things that must be done have to be done without help.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
