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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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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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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When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
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I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.
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Can the darkness condemn the light?
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A shortage of coffins was one thing, but then London began running out of graves.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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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.
