Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes
I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
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I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.
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I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?
