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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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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In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.
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There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the deep end pretty quick.
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I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
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The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
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Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
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I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.
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I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.
