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Betty Williams Quotes

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 22, 1943

Topics

Live Business Peace World You Where

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

Work Good Best Experience People Me

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Finding Journalism Down Pants Passes

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Music Joy Just Absolute

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Simon van der Meer

People Understanding Growing Matters

I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

Good Fight Angry You Fast Way

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Robert Baden-Powell

Good Men Competition Rules Play

As long as I have beaches, some good friends around me, it's 75 degrees and sunny, I'm good.

Good Me Friends Long Good Friends

A movie can be plain and simple, but if there's a lot of action, I enjoy them.

Simple Action Enjoy Movie Plain Lot

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Money American Tolerance Stock Market

There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

Age Children Parents Think Die You

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

Woman Color Better Always Room Than

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

Age School People Bad Gang Beat

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