Betty Williams Quotes

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

Betty Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Joel Osteen

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My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Anna Lee

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Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

Stephanie Kwolek

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I've lost 'Drag Race' twice. I know how, with one bad day, it could just end.

Trixie Mattel

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Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Tommy Douglas

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I was the first wrestler ever in the history of wrestling to star in a major motion studio picture that became #1 box office of the weekend, and that gave the itch to I don't know how many wrestlers.

Roddy Piper

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We as taxpayers have put in well over $12 to $15 billion of investment in a repository for high-level nuclear waste... if we're ever to recoup that investment in the future... then we're going to need some money to reopen Yucca Mountain.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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When I'm totally in tune with myself, and I'm flowing, it don't matter who I'm fighting; that's just a problem for anybody.

Rose Namajunas

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When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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Understanding how to compete better has really made a difference.

Michelle Carter

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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

William J. Clinton

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You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

Marina Abramovic

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