Bill Ayers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
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Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I was involved in the anti-war movement.
