Billy Dee Williams quote: "For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image."

I don't want to sound too carried away, but from what I've seen, 'Bingo Long' is goi...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for y...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my ...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antith...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depres...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

My idea is to paint paintings so that when you walk into a room, I'm pulling you in, or that mak...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I'm a fan of the opera and I was in there looking around, and I saw this beautiful and colorful cera...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Actually, I believe in everything, including astrology and tarot cards. All of it is just another wa...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about fil...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above wa...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and t...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

If anything, I've seen myself as the full spectrum of colors, and to be faced with not being abl...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I'm always looking for good things to do.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reaso...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time ...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I&...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, ...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; fol...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, re...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS

I imagined that a better world would be less complicated, less involved, and with less need to mass ...
DEE WILLIAMS

Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go...
DEE WILLIAMS

The more I took note of how my body and brain clicked along through the day, the more I realized tha...
DEE WILLIAMS

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has chan...
BILLY WILLIAMS

The people here are friendly. I'm enjoying myself now.
BILLY WILLIAMS

I'm a fan of the opera and I was in there looking around, and I saw this beautiful and colorful cera...
BILLY WILLIAMS

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
BILLY WILLIAMS

All of us became real close friends. My best friends aren't from high school or college. They're fro...
BILLY WILLIAMS

He was a really hard worker. He stood apart from everyone else. I knew he was going to be special.
BILLY WILLIAMS

I told his dad when Chris was a freshman that he was going to break my record.
BILLY WILLIAMS

It's not easy to win a batting title if your name's not Bill.
BILLY WILLIAMS

As I got here, things began to look up. But I'm looking at (how) I have four more years before retir...
BILLY WILLIAMS

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
BILLY WILLIAMS

I saw an interview [with Pierre] and one thing he talked about was scoring runs, and that's what a l...
BILLY WILLIAMS

Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish ...
BILLY WILLIAMS

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy fo...
BILLY WILLIAMS

I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did th...
BILLY WILLIAMS

It all started with the leadoff guy, a guy who knows the value of getting on base, knows the value o...
BILLY WILLIAMS

Toward the middle of the season when I started to get my scores up, I thought I might have a chance ...
BILLY WILLIAMS

The one thing he's developed is on the inside part of the plate. He's gotten more aggressive with it...
BILLY WILLIAMS

This has really gotten all levels of city government concerned. It's been a top priority of ours to ...
BILLY WILLIAMS

I'm really happy for him because he's such a nice individual.
BILLY WILLIAMS

Any time you hit the ball to the opposite field, you're swinging the bat real good. [Lee] has mainta...
BILLY WILLIAMS

When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know th...
BILLY WILLIAMS

The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids ...
BILLY WILLIAMS

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a...
BILLY WILLIAMS

I was only 250 miles away, but now I'm 2,500 miles away. I was a little disappointed my wife and gra...
BILLY J. WILLIAMS

The people here are friendly. I'm enjoying myself now.
BILLY J. WILLIAMS

As I got here, things began to look up. But I'm looking at (how) I have four more years before retir...
BILLY J. WILLIAMS

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to ...
DEE DEE MYERS

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a ...
DEE DEE RAMONE

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but ...
DEE DEE MYERS

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bil...
DEE DEE MYERS

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealt...
DEE DEE MYERS

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of stu...
DEE DEE MYERS

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bon...
DEE DEE MYERS

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bi...
DEE DEE MYERS

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy re...
DEE DEE MYERS

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
DEE DEE RAMONE

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consid...
DEE DEE MYERS

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, ...
DEE DEE RAMONE

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House an...
DEE DEE MYERS

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male coun...
DEE DEE MYERS

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A...
DEE DEE MYERS

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants...
DEE DEE MYERS

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a...
DEE DEE MYERS

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumptio...
DEE DEE MYERS

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterp...
DEE DEE MYERS

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or s...
DEE DEE MYERS

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inaugurat...
DEE DEE MYERS

Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
DEE DEE ARTNER

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.
DEE DEE ARTNER

I used to be a hairdresser.
DEE DEE RAMONE

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'first...
DEE DEE MYERS

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.
DEE DEE ARTNER

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics...
DEE DEE MYERS

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized i...
DEE DEE MYERS

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in busines...
DEE DEE MYERS

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to ackn...
DEE DEE MYERS

I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to th...
DEE DEE RAMONE

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women ...
DEE DEE MYERS

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hour...
DEE DEE MYERS

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled th...
DEE DEE MYERS

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip ...
DEE DEE MYERS

In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people wh...
DEE DEE MYERS

The reason why we are all different is to allow us to; to keep learning about each other so we can k...
DEE DEE ARTNER

Simplicity is the key to happiness.
DEE DEE ARTNER

We haven't seen any red flags to indicate an increase in incidents of inmate-on-inmate or inmate-on-...
DEE DEE SHORT

We encourage the union to express their concerns at monthly labor-management meetings. They can alwa...
DEE DEE SHORT

We have to work within a budget. We feel we are doing that safely and securely and we evaluate this ...
DEE DEE SHORT

I just don't get it.
DEE DEE HORTON

Some teams don't practice hard and do great in games. We're the opposite.
DEE DEE HORTON

I think we're getting it, then we get into a game.
DEE DEE HORTON

Maybe it's stage fright. I ask myself, 'How do we play like this?' We do great in practice. Then in ...
DEE DEE HORTON

The first time I saw him perform was at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1994 and I cried, and everyone...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

'This Is New' was a beginning for me, a gentle announcement that this was where I was moving. For me...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

There wasn't a whole lot going on in the States for black actresses at the time. I didn't have a rec...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

This album was really my way to say thank you to France for having opened its arms and adopted me, c...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the ne...
DEE DEE RAMONE

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Wome...
DEE DEE MYERS

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve confl...
DEE DEE MYERS

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used ...
DEE DEE WARWICK

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. ...
DEE DEE RAMONE

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents ...
DEE DEE MYERS

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrific...
DEE DEE MYERS

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set...
DEE DEE MYERS

There are many reasons to be simple. It’s simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to comm...
DEE DEE ARTNER

what you don't know will cost you.
DEE DEE ARTNER

I love to teach. Teaching is so important.
DEE DEE DOUGHERTY LOTTIE

People are so welcoming. When you travel to a square dance, you arrive and feel like you are coming ...
DEE DEE DOUGHERTY LOTTIE

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else w...
JACK DEE

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
JACK DEE

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, a...
JACK DEE

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have rea...
JACK DEE

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
JACK DEE

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into come...
JACK DEE

I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you ...
JACK DEE

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet...
JACK DEE

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
JACK DEE

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy o...
JACK DEE

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get e...
JACK DEE

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
JACK DEE

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing...
JACK DEE

I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I do...
JACK DEE

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only sto...
JACK DEE

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really ...
JACK DEE

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with ...
JACK DEE

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this ca...
JACK DEE

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
JACK DEE

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
JACK DEE

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendenc...
JACK DEE

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisp...
JACK DEE

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'...
JACK DEE

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented...
JACK DEE

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
JACK DEE

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and th...
DEE BROWN

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your min...
DEE REMY

When you know my love, my love will warm you.
RUBY DEE

He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.
DEE MARIE

Akan ada satu saat kamu bertanya: pergi ke mana inspirasiku? Tiba-tiba kamu merasa ditinggal pergi. ...
DEE LESTARI

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out...
DEE HOCK

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while sub...
DEE HOCK

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of t...
DEE HOCK

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
DEE HOCK

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now a...
DEE HOCK

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. No...
DEE HOCK

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
DEE HOCK

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, ...
DEE HOCK

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its e...
DEE HOCK

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most ex...
DEE HOCK

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.
DEE HOCK

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how th...
DEE HOCK

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
DEE HOCK

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles ...
DEE HOCK

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
DEE HOCK

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know ...
DEE HOCK

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
DEE HOCK

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence ...
DEE HOCK

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out...
DEE HOCK

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, pr...
DEE HOCK

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else i...
DEE HOCK

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
DEE HOCK

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radi...
DEE HOCK

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may litera...
DEE HOCK

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
DEE HOCK

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
DEE HOCK

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
DEE BROWN

Well then, take this thought with you for the dark hours to come: It is a ludicrous fiction that lov...
CHRIS DEE

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first...
JONATHAN DEE

I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken ...
KIKI DEE

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!
DEE MARIE

To me, it's part of the success of the program, placing as many kids in school as we possibly can. I...
BILL DEE

We've got some kids in new positions, and that will get better. That's why you scrimmage good people...
BILL DEE

Everybody's worrying about our tailback, but I think we got a good one. He's just got to hold on to ...
BILL DEE

We played one game, and let's be honest, it wasn't against a very good football team.
BILL DEE

When you're an aggressive football team, you're gonna get some penalties, but you just don't want st...
BILL DEE

It's a tough situation for those kids. He said he can't wait to get home. He's already homesick.
BILL DEE

I was real proud of him. I told him his overall win percentage is better than mine now.
BILL DEE

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
RUBY DEE

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
DEE HOCK

There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the...
JONATHAN DEE

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE

I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul ...
DEE HENDERSON

Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains
DEE BROWN

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just anno...
JACK DEE

Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some r...
JONATHAN DEE

Dia, yang tidak pernah kamu mengerti. Dia, racun yang membunuhmu perlahan. Dia, yang kamu reka dan k...
DEE LESTARI

Because he was my jockey,
DEE ANDERSON

Gary is one lucky guy to have Amy.
DEE ANDERSON

Currently there are no agreed-upon definitions. It won't end up apples to apples.
DEE ANDERSON

I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now?
DEE ANDERSON

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

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Billy Dee Williams

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

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