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John Ashcroft Quotes

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1942

Topics

Play Just Court Anymore Full

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Education Encouragement Nine

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

People Ideas Bad Down Bad Habits

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

Great Pride Monarchy Own Sense Like

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Maurice Hinchey

American Price Oil Without Clear

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Men Treat Make Just Like Themselves

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

I Am Me Celebrate Think Matters

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Impossible Civilization Instinct

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Hang Directors Producers Certainly

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Love Parents Given Amount Enormous

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

America You Over Things Where Laws

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

Brigitte Bardot

Day Night Every Day Dirty Same Like

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

Family Now Up United United States

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