 
	
	
		
			Ashanti (Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas) Quotes
		
	
	
		
	
	
	
		I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
	
	  Maggie Gyllenhaal Maggie Gyllenhaal
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		Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
	
	  Flavor Flav Flavor Flav
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		I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
	
	  Joanne Rowling Joanne Rowling
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		I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
	
	  Garth Risk Hallberg Garth Risk Hallberg
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		If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
	
	  Jack Canfield Jack Canfield
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		I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
	
	  Parker Posey Parker Posey
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		When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
	
	  H. R. McMaster H. R. McMaster
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		I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
	
	  Irwin Rose Irwin Rose
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		I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
	
	  D'Angelo D'Angelo
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		There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
	
	  Sam Smith Sam Smith
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		I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
	
	  Pat Summitt Pat Summitt
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		I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
	
	  Forest Whitaker Forest Whitaker