Armstrong Williams Quotes
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.
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I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
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One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.
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There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
