Bill Ayers Quotes
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
Quotes to Explore
-
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
-
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
-
You either make dust or eat dust.
-
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
-
I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
-
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
-
I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
-
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
-
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
-
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
-
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
-
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
-
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
-
A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
-
I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
-
I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
-
A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.
-
You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two!
-
I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic.
-
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
-
Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
-
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
