Bill Ayers Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.
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Pay is about the power we forfeit to get the power of pay. For example, we forfeit power when we work for others, not ourselves, but we get the power of the paycheck when we do that.
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It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
