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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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
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Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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We have backed off the big push to get computers in primary grades, ... We do have things where kids use technology before they leave fifth grade. But previous studies of the introduction of technology at other schools haven't shown a huge value in learning as a result. When we put something in the classroom, it absolutely has to further what kids need to know. I just don't want to go off in a tangent in one direction without being completely clear that it will pay off for all the kids.
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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.
