Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes
'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
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'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.
