Evelyn Ashford Quotes
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I make music because I like making music.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.
Garry Kasparov -
I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.
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Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
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I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.
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Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.
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I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.
