Ashley Nell Tipton Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?
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Mentoring is about listening to people, helping them go over what the issues are and how to clarify ways to deal with any problems that may arise.
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Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
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If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.
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We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.
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I trust people until they give me a reason not to trust them.
