Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
There are no acceptable reasons for abuse or cruelty to any living being. None.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
-
A busybody's work is never done.
-
I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
-
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
-
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
-
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
-
Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
-
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
-
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
-
I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
-
I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
-
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
-
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
-
I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
-
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
-
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
-
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
-
Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
-
The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.
-
The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.
-
Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
-
I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
-
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-
There are no acceptable reasons for abuse or cruelty to any living being. None.
