Bill Foster Quotes
I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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What happened this far remote would have little political impact on Earth. What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.
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There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
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I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.
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I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.
