Maurice Ashley Quotes
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.
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When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.
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I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
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Cooking is creating emotion.
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
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There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
