Akeem Ayers Quotes
My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.
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I had underwear thrown on stage that said 'Gokey' on the back... all glittery! It was grandma-underwear, too.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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Both schools agreed it was best to play the rivalry game on the final weekend to conclude the regular season.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.
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My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.
