Bill Ayers Quotes

I was a militant.

Bill Ayers

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• Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Always
  • Process

• Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Animal
  • Rain

• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Hand
  • Body
  • Weakness

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Why
  • You
  • Own

• The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Reading
  • Growth

• God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Unique
  • Celebrate

• Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Guns

• So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • You
  • Waiting
  • Years

• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Think
  • Entrepreneur
  • Box

• Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but, as I saw it, it was a great deal more. If, therefore, it lacks the ring of sincerity, or even, of tragedy, the fault rests not with the theme but with my handling of it.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Crying

• We see young leaders who embrace the diversity of this region not as a weakness, but as a strength, and who realize that even though we are all individually different and come from different traditions and different communities, we're stronger when we work together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Different
  • Together

• What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Focus

• 'You have been allowing challenges to destroy you instead of you to destroy challenges. When challenges come – my God has the final say, not my ability or knowledge.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Knowledge

• As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Understanding
  • Victory

• The peasantry, having lifted itself up out of its medieval status, cannot politically generate it's own rage. - Speech in Paris, 1934

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Up
  • Paris

• Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

  

  Jared Polis

• It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Great
  • Political
  • Action

• Usually, the first three months post acquisition are up and down. The acquirer and the acquiree are trying to figure out how to interact. The founders of the acquiree are usually tired from the deal process and adjusting to their new reality.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Reality

• They are similar sorts of players. The three of them are extremely talented.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Players
  • Extremely
  • Talanted

• The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Free
  • Reason

• Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

  

  Nellie Bly

• I was a militant.

  

  Bill Ayers