Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Anthony Douglas Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam McKay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Otto Frank 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jacky Ickx 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My customers are successful workingwomen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar de la Renta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orison Swett Marden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Ehrenreich 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince McMahon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manny Pacquiao 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Sklar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry McGee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia Highsmith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tamron Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nat Turner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Dempsey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Hiaasen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Barrett