Evelyn Ashford Quotes
Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.
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I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support.
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I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
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When I go, I go hard.
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When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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I grew up in Brooklyn.
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
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Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.
