Nickolas Ashford Quotes

I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.

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• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Together

• As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Three

• My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• I believe in helping people who are down.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • People
  • Believe

• Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Travel

• If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Up
  • Done
  • Interesting

• I remember one of the first albums I got was an album called 'Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous.'

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Live
  • Remember

• I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • Money

• I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.

  

  James Knowles III
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Book
  • American
  • War

• For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People
  • Art
  • Photography

• I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • People

• My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • Up
  • Book
  • Hand

• Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

  

  John Olver

• I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.

  

  Franka Potente
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Alienum aes homini ingenuo acerba est servitus.

  

  Publilius Syrus

• Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

  

  David Mixner
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Important
  • Dance

• I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.

  

  Nickolas Ashford
  • People
  • Thinking
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