Ashley Wagner Quotes
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
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Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
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Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.
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In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation.
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Schon ist mein Blick am Hügel, dem besonnten, dem Wege, den ich kaum begann, voran. So fasst uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten, voller Erscheinung, aus der Ferne an-und wandelt uns, auch wenn wirs nicht erreichen, in jenes, das wir, kaum es ahnend, sind; ein Zeichen weht, erwidernd unserm Zeichen... Wir aber spüren nur den Gegenwind.
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
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At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting.
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I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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Skaters are infamously superstitious.
