Ashley Nell Tipton Quotes
I'm representing for the plus-size community and the plus-size industry. It feels amazing to be able to be the voice that we need.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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The moistened thumb of the expectant reader has not yet marked the soft tissues of this lean clean smiling volume. Spread me, and break me open, for pleasure.
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I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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The people with whom I've worked in the Special Operations community are more concerned with an individual's contribution to the team, and their ability to do their job exceptionally well, than their race or sexual preferences.
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I'm representing for the plus-size community and the plus-size industry. It feels amazing to be able to be the voice that we need.
