Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.
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I would never sign up to film my personal life.
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Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.
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I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.
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Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.
