Billy Dee Williams Quotes

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

Billy Dee Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 6, 1937

Topics

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Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.

Joel Grey

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When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.

Mel Gibson

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Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense.

Jeanne Kohl-Welles

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That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Steven Berkoff

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Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'

Siri Hustvedt

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The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Tommy Chong

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And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Robert Creeley

TimeExperiencePresentPlaceThree

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Robert Frost

YouOutsiderRankWellInsider

I had visited Congressman Deal before, but I never thought I'd be sitting on the other side of the desk.

Tom Graves

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I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Ronnie Montrose

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When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking.

Mike Schultz

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There aren't, like, four Aquamans before me. I get to set the tone for it.

Jason Momoa

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