Ashleigh Murray Quotes

I know that I'm a role model for a lot of people, and I'd like to be. I know that there are people who probably don't agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That's OK.

Ashleigh Murray

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I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'

Jim Carroll

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Catalysts offer the promise of making chemical transformations far less polluting.

Robert H. Grubbs

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My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.

Mia Sara

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U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.

Stefan Sagmeister

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Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

Robert Winston

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I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

Josh Brolin

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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don McLean

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Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

Dick Thornburgh

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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

Douglas Sirk

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People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

David Viscott

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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.

Christopher Buckley

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I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.

Brenda Russell

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