Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.
Quotes to Explore
-
'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
-
But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
-
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
-
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
-
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
-
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
-
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
-
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
-
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
-
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
-
I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
-
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
-
No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
-
No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
-
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
-
When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
-
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-
I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
-
Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
-
I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
-
More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
-
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
-
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
-
Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.
