Maurice Ashley Quotes
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.
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Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
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Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.
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Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States.
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I don't want to massively slag off Marvel, I don't. Because they have just employed a woman to be their superhero, and so hallelujah.
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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
