Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York but never ended up there.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.
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This is the only thing I know.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
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We all are so serious when we are younger.
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We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.
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I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.
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A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
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I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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Mingle often with good people to keep your Soul nourished.
