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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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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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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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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Any time the president talks, you listen.
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There's controversy around Fox. I understand that.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
