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PHARRELL WILLIAMS Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquel...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS 'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplin...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happ...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I only entertain very close friends.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I tr...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a di...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not bein...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgment.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style m...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of d...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could ...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to con...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
VENUS WILLIAMS But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
TREAT WILLIAMS After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
VENUS WILLIAMS The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS The day my son was born my life changed completely.
TREAT WILLIAMS We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy...
CINDY WILLIAMS If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that ...
TAD WILLIAMS One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was ...
TAD WILLIAMS I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandw...
TAD WILLIAMS Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know...
TAD WILLIAMS Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell...
TAD WILLIAMS We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin...
TAD WILLIAMS I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their pligh...
TAD WILLIAMS Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what...
TAD WILLIAMS In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. T...
VENUS WILLIAMS Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie...
VENUS WILLIAMS Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
VENUS WILLIAMS Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
VENUS WILLIAMS The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
VENUS WILLIAMS A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
VENUS WILLIAMS Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
VENUS WILLIAMS I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ...
VENUS WILLIAMS I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more suc...
VENUS WILLIAMS I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
VENUS WILLIAMS You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
VANESSA WILLIAMS New York is my home.
VANESSA WILLIAMS You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitchi...
HARLAND WILLIAMS Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
HARLAND WILLIAMS I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s...
HARLAND WILLIAMS The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la...
HARLAND WILLIAMS It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin...
HARLAND WILLIAMS What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the...
HARLAND WILLIAMS Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. W...
HARLAND WILLIAMS The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
HARLAND WILLIAMS I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
HARLAND WILLIAMS Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
IAN WILLIAMS It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS I'm too tasteful for my pants.
IAN WILLIAMS I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
IAN WILLIAMS I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
IAN WILLIAMS I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably...
IAN WILLIAMS This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
IAN WILLIAMS Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
IAN WILLIAMS Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in your...
VENUS WILLIAMS So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by mysel...
RICKY WILLIAMS The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
RICKY WILLIAMS As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there ...
RICKY WILLIAMS As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the...
RICKY WILLIAMS A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the streng...
RICKY WILLIAMS When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore ...
RICKY WILLIAMS I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be p...
RICKY WILLIAMS I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to...
RICKY WILLIAMS There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something mea...
RICKY WILLIAMS One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
RICKY WILLIAMS Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice...
RICKY WILLIAMS I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that da...
RICKY WILLIAMS To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime ...
RICKY WILLIAMS I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
RICKY WILLIAMS There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be abl...
RICKY WILLIAMS People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
RICKY WILLIAMS One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking ab...
RICKY WILLIAMS I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearanc...
RICKY WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the que...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myster...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentra...
SERENA WILLIAMS Tennis just a game, family is forever.
SERENA WILLIAMS I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
SERENA WILLIAMS I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even d...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second f...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dan...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I love kids, but they are a tough audience.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was...
ROBIN WILLIAMS When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though...
ROBIN WILLIAMS A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of be...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
ROBIN WILLIAMS One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
ROBIN WILLIAMS I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to cre...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Reality: What a concept!
ROBIN WILLIAMS If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
ROBIN WILLIAMS If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
ROBIN WILLIAMS What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
ROBIN WILLIAMS The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field...
ROBIN WILLIAMS In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski...
ROBIN WILLIAMS We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive -...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
ROBIN WILLIAMS When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
ROBIN WILLIAMS