John Ashcroft Quotes
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
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If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
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I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.
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It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
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Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
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Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
