Sylvia Ashton-Warner (Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner) Quotes
It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.
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I guess I crave stability.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
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Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.
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This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
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We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
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I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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I'm actually a barefoot girl.
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It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.
