Ashley Madekwe Quotes
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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The Internet doesn’t just offer opportunities for misogynistic abuse, you know. Penis enlargers can also be bought discreetly.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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A land that rejects the truth, barricades itself against change and lacks the spirit of freedom is hopeless.
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.
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I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
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The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.
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The moment our daughter was lifted up and we laid eyes on her was incredible.
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I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
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There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me.
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I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!
