Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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Hands promiscuously applied,Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.
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As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
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How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?
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As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
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Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.
