Bill Ayers Quotes

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Myself

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Family
  • Day
  • Christmas

• It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Me
  • Personal
  • Fascination

• We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Church

• We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Politics
  • Identity
  • Opportunities

• I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Always

• Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Player
  • Games
  • Difference

• I don't want to make 'Chandni Bar 2.' I didn't think 'Fashion 2' will happen. If a film ends on a high note... makes the audience think and lingers in the end... that is needed.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • High
  • Think
  • Fashion

• Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • History
  • Spirit
  • Credibility

• It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Great
  • Important
  • Energy

• I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Kids
  • Better
  • Win

• Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Way
  • Problems
  • Environmental

• When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.

  

  Elias Canetti

• I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Nice

• I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

  

  Bill Ayers