Ashleigh Murray Quotes

I grew up saying, 'I want to be famous,' but that was just the words that you used. As I got older, I understood that what I really meant was, 'I want to be successful.'

Ashleigh Murray

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There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

John Garfield

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Everybody in life is a chameleon.

Melanie Chisholm

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When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

Steve Martin

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But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Tony Blair

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It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

Michael Leunig

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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Jules Verne

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It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going.

Jason Fried

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Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Judy Gold

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I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I usually go to a Barnes & Noble cafe or to the library on 5th and 42nd. In the afternoons, I do research, reading, editing, and play with the kids.

Douglas Brunt

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I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

Colum McCann

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The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.

Conor Oberst

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Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Chuck Palahniuk

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