Bill Ayers Quotes
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.
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I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.
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Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
