Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

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• It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

  

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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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• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

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• There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
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• I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

  

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• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

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• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  

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• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

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• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

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• But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

  

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• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

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• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

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• I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.

  

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• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

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• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

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• Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

  

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• There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

  

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• Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.

  

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• The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

  

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• A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
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