"I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different kind of martial art, maybe even a more cerebral art because it's all about redirecting the energies of your opponent instead of trying to bash your opponent's head in effectively, so it's a much more loving art, so I guess I tend that way normally anyway."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Maurice Ashley

#Art Quotes #Years Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Are you ready for some puppies?!”
“I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.”
“I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I donâ€™t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess itâ€™s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.”
“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.”
“I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'”
“Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.”
“You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.”

Source : John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.161, Harper Collins
“Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.”

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