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 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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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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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 love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
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Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.
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We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?
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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.
