Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.
