Ashanti (Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas) Quotes

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

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• We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunity

• I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Good
  • Growth
  • Goal

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Now

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Parents
  • Movies
  • Easy

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Church
  • Word

• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Think
  • Free

• We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Women
  • Young

• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Summer
  • Theater

• It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • Good
  • Game

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.

  

  John Hurt
  • Good
  • Small
  • Interesting

• Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Imagine

• It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.

  

  Corin Nemec

• In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Future
  • Discipline

• Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • Together
  • Ego

• I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

  

  Ashanti
  • Good
  • Decision