Matthew Ashford Quotes
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
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The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
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O miseras hominum mentes, o pectora caeca!qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclisdegitur hoc aevi quod cumquest! nonne viderenihil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut quicorpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruaturiucundo sensu cura semota metuque?
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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.
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My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.
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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
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I draw whatever hits me.
