John Ashcroft Quotes
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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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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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
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This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.
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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
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Failure is success in progress.
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Overexposing my innards to careless hearts and hands is a practice I am prepared to stop performing.
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People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
