Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
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I make it happen. Who bought Alex Haley's book 'Roots' for TV? Me. I hired the director, hired the writer. I put them all together. I'm like the chef. If I mix all the ingredients right, it's going to taste terrific. If I don't, it's not going to come out good.
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All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.
