Eric Heiden Quotes
When I was skating, there was ice only for a really short period of time. So we would have to do a lot of other cross training type things.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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When I was skating, there was ice only for a really short period of time. So we would have to do a lot of other cross training type things.
