Elizabeth Ashley Quotes
Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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Hunting for sport is an improvement over hunting for food, in that there has been added to the test of skill and ethical code, which the hunter formulates for himself, and must live up to without the moral support of bystanders.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.
