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Jody Williams Quotes

For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Jody Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 9, 1950

Topics

Me World Better Place Person Us

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

Jim Morris

Time Me Long Long Time Something

There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.

Megyn Kelly

People Me Who Lots Types

I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.

Amanda de Cadenet

Problems Been Disease Thyroid

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

Shiri Appleby

Character Man Story Affects Most

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

Tommy Lee Jones

Life Family Character Experience Job

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

Tom Lehrer

Job Writing Now Quit First Years

They make three types of movies, and if you don't make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It's either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it's an animated film, or it's an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don't make movies about real people.

Rob Reiner

People Comedy You Sex Find Three

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Power Simple Democracy Majority

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

Martin Rees

Attitude Science Underestimate Global

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

Michael York

Love Time New York Door You Play

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

Memory Understanding Labor Leave

People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

Mireille Enos

Mother Time Sleep People Me Better