Betty Williams Quotes
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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I don't read books.
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Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.
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The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
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Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.
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Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half brokenhearted,To sever for years.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
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It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.
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Film and art are close together.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.
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Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
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I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'
