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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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.
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My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
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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.
