Catherine Ashton Quotes
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What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
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You talk as long as you are listened to.
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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences in my journal, than I do in reading much. Novels, even if they are good, pass out of my memory very rapidly. I enjoy it as I should a scene at the theatre; but am not essentially benefited by the incidents or morals. What more desirable at this period of my life than to find sources of daily peace and joy from within; that I think is true life.
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Anyone can lose their home and find their life is turned upside down.
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There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
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It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.
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Hate is a useless emotion.
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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
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I believe that through prayer, we can change our way of thought.
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I actually like taking a mic and plugging it into an amp and giving it to a kid to see what they do, 'cause they flip out. They're way more in touch with their voices than we give them credit for.
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When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.
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We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
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So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.
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Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.
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I watched Leicester City lose in the 1969 FA Cup final with my dad and granddad when I was eight and cried all the way home. I have seen them get promoted and relegated. I played for them for eight years. I even got a group of like-minded fans and friends to stump up a few quid to salvage the club when they went into liquidation.
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Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
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I'm not interested in the limelight.
