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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[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .
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We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.
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Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
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The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
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I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
