Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.
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Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
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I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
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It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.
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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.
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The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.
