Betty Williams Quotes
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
