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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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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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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We'll know homo superior when he comes - by definition. He'll be the one we won't be able to euth.
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My business partner Warren Adams and I formed our company WalkRunFly as part of what felt like a logical progression: if you want to execute things to your satisfaction, then you want to have as much control as you can. That leads to helping create work for others, not just yourself.
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Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.
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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
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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.
