Billy Dee Williams Quotes

I think I've been very fortunate, considering the obstacles that I had to deal with, you know, just being - by virtue of being a brown, lovely, brown-skinned man. But on the other hand, I've been able to make a good living, and I've been able to take care of my family, which is most important to me.

Billy Dee Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

Joe Kaeser

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I always knew I would live in France.

Andre Boucourechliev

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

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I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

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We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

Mike McCready

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I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

Jordana Brewster

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Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

David Suzuki

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It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

Clint Eastwood

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I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

Boy George

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A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

Arthur Capper

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A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

Alice Oswald

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I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of what it means. We figure things out; we work things out through the help of other people who can engage with us but also be intelligently critical.

Phil Klay

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