Eric Heiden Quotes

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

Eric Heiden

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• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Words
  • Faith
  • End

• Only in your imagination can you revise.

  

  Fay Wray
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Only

• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Country
  • Family
  • Home

• Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Comic

• As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Think

• Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Create
  • Dangerous

• When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • Sad
  • Animals

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Part
  • Final

• While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Political
  • Courageous

• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Way
  • You
  • Achieve

• I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Interesting
  • Exploring

• Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Man
  • Mean
  • See

• In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on 'Tashan,' a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Taught
  • Debate
  • Defend

• If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day... Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Nasty

• I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Good
  • Christian

• Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

  

  Michael Franti
  • Sun
  • Tree
  • Rain

• I'm going to use this disappointment as motivation for getting better, ... It was a hard year, the whole year, I'm not going to lie. I don't feel that I have played like I'm capable of playing.

  

  Alana Beard
  • Playing
  • Year
  • motivation

• You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

  

  Eric Heiden