Byllye Avery Quotes
Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
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My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
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In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.
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Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.
