Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
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For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
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I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)
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As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
