Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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'But what do the words mean?' asked the wondering Mole. 'That I do not know,' said the Rat simply. 'I passed them on to you as they reached me. Ah! now they return again, and this time full and clear! This time, at last, it is the real, the unmistakable thing, simple - passionate - perfect - '
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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Leave people better than you found them.
