Evelyn Ashford Quotes
I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
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A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.
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I don't like losing.
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Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
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Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.
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Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
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People expect all women to react the same to pregnancy. But anyone who's been around pregnant women knows that it's not all cutesy and sweet. You spaz out and you're angry and you have tantrums.
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If I'm a fan, I'm a fan for life.
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In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.
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At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
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A lot of people are not meant to be together.
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I think that success is having fun.
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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.
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I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
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I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
