Evelyn Ashford Quotes
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.
