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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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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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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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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I don't calculate my net worth.
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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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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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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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I will be a president who is close to the people.
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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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L.A. kind of scares me.
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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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I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.
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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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People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
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Our wants and needs distort to an unknown degree what we perceive. We block out a great deal of information that is potentially available if it does not fit our needs, expectations, preconceptions, and prejudgments.
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Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
