Jody Williams Quotes
I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I walked away from pro football and a $2.9 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers because I didn't want to develop CTE.
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When I was 20 years old, if you had a $100 bill and a good idea and a strong work ethic, you could start a company.
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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it
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It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information that generated a responsibility to protect ourselves as much as we can and also a responsibility to hold our government accountable to honoring our constitutional rights.
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The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
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I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.
