Ashley Thomas Quotes
I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
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We have self-assessment tools, computer-based tools to see how we are performing mentally in outer space and there's some also very interesting technology and work that's being funded by NRSBI to look at facial recognition to look at your patterns to see if you're experiencing stress or fatigue. It's a kind of thing that I think will gain acceptance with gradually. But it probably has more to immediate application in things like homeland security, and looking at facial recognition of people going through airports and things like that to see who's under stress.
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These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
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For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
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I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
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I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.
