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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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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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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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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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I care about my quality of life and money.
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It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
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If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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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.
