Ashley Madekwe Quotes
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.
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There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
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Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.
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I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun.
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Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
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I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.
