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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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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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 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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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I believe in MWA - management by walking around - so I spend as much time as possible traveling and visiting franchise partners. You only learn by walking around and meeting people.
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Normal' is a dryer setting.
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The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
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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.
