Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.
