Niki Ashton Quotes

My approach is that all policy ought to be evidence-based.

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• 'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Sports
  • Playing
  • Speed

• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Airplane

• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Mean
  • Dirt
  • Umpire

• Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Anger

• I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Time
  • Career
  • Same

• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Process
  • Healing

• I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Vision
  • Run

• I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Body
  • Mountain
  • Gym

• We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Think
  • New
  • Finding

• I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Feel
  • Questions

• When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • France
  • Japan

• I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people I portray may be grim, back-breaking, depraved, the people themselves are always remarkable characters and souls

  

  G.M.B. Akash
  • People
  • May
  • Character

• We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Water

• The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

  

  Claudio Monteverdi
  • Truth
  • Works
  • Composer

• To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators. They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Art
  • Education
  • Passion

• Peace is more than the end of violence. Peace is more than just a cease-fire.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Peace
  • Violence
  • Ceasefire

• Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Evidence
  • Expertise
  • Liberal bias

• The best time to go fishing is when you can.

  

  Ed Zern
  • Fishing
  • Best Time

• Industry without art is brutality.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Art
  • Industry
  • Brutality

• I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Truth
  • Church
  • Building

• My approach is that all policy ought to be evidence-based.

  

  Niki Ashton
  • Evidence
  • Policy
  • Base