Betty Williams Quotes
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.
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At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
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There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
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Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
