There was a little added pressure after last year's mishap. I just wanted to get it around.
LAURYN WILLIAMS You get up, train, then you have the rest of the day, maybe do some sightseeing.
LAURYN WILLIAMS The good thing is, the majority of [the Americans in Helsinki] were part of the 2002 world junior te...
LAURYN WILLIAMS I've always loved Mickey Mouse. I even have a Mickey Mouse tattoo on my right leg.
LAURYN WILLIAMS In college, you just thought about having fun. Now you have to think about making money and putting ...
LAURYN WILLIAMS I was a little bit nervous about the exchanges. But I think they were almost excellent.
LAURYN WILLIAMS Allyson had the option of running, and she wasn't very comfortable as the first leg. No one is angry...
LAURYN WILLIAMS Allyson had the option of running and she wasn't very comfortable as the first leg. No one is upset ...
LAURYN WILLIAMS That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Tou...
LAURYN HILL Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
LAURYN HILL Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and disto...
LAURYN HILL I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then ...
LAURYN HILL When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I ...
LAURYN HILL Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should ...
LAURYN HILL Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people f...
LAURYN HILL You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice...
LAURYN HILL We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else...
LAURYN HILL We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
LAURYN HILL As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environ...
LAURYN HILL People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that wa...
LAURYN HILL To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corrupti...
LAURYN HILL Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call...
LAURYN HILL When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my t...
LAURYN HILL I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
LAURYN HILL What was freely given to me, I freely give.
LAURYN HILL Let optimists rule the world.
LAURYN HILL This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
LAURYN HILL We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
LAURYN HILL I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
LAURYN HILL Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
LAURYN HILL I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the...
LAURYN HILL Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
LAURYN HILL The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorit...
LAURYN HILL I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better ...
LAURYN HILL Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas, back stabbers do this
LAURYN HILL The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not avail...
LAURYN HILL If they only showed Love, they would own love.
LAURYN HILL The sweetest thing I've ever known is a kiss upon the collar bone
LAURYN HILL When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order...
LAURYN HILL It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. ...
LAURYN HILL I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with &#...
LAURYN HILL When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in o...
LAURYN HILL I'm a mess but God is dealing with me every day. That's what all these songs are about: problem, cau...
LAURYN HILL It's really a miracle that I'm alive.
LAURYN HILL Ohh and the harsh realityIs they've made grace for you and meInstead of saving you and me,They're ju...
LAURYN HILL Turn Your Lights Down Low.
LAURYN HILL Wow, this is so amazing. I thank God. This is crazy because this is hip-hop music.
LAURYN HILL I keep letting you back in,how can I explain myself,as painful as this thing has been,I just can't b...
LAURYN HILL They are not the glue or the missing piece to your puzzle. They are just an outsider, an observer, a...
LAURYN MOSLEY I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky/ Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.
LAURYN HILL I believe when we’re able to fully own and express ourselves, we are able to tap into a creative p...
LAURYN DOLL Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what ...
LAURYN HILL From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
LAURYN HILL I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I wa...
LAURYN HILL The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness...
LAURYN HILL Ohh and the harsh reality
Is they've made grace for you and me
Instead of saving you and me,...
LAURYN HILL I keep letting you back in,
how can I explain myself,
as painful as this thing has been,
LAURYN HILL 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