Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
The next time you look into an animal’s eyes look deep and long. You will see their inner beauty and feel their living soul.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.
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I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
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If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!
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The next time you look into an animal’s eyes look deep and long. You will see their inner beauty and feel their living soul.
