Evelyn Ashford Quotes
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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I've used the term 'Facebook for the enterprise,' and everyone goes, 'We don't want Facebook in the enterprise,' because it conjures up that it's not secure, and it's going to be a waste of time. All these things are true, which is why Facebook is not in the enterprise.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
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I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
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Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.
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My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
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I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.
