J.M. Williams Quotes

Live and “love to be fascinated.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

If you feel something, you should do it.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.

To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.

Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.

We all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I'm the best in the world.

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.

I do want to look good still; I do want to be healthy.

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.