Eric Heiden Quotes

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

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• There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Men
  • Know
  • Understand

• I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Black

• Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Forever
  • Root
  • Assurance

• Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Up
  • Want
  • Powerful

• America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • America
  • Leader

• I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. I also believe that if doors don't open, make new doors, so I've also started producing quite a bit of things.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Different

• A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Animal
  • End
  • Discussion

• I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Team
  • Need
  • Build

• She was not so naive as to think there was any necessary relation between religion and morality, or that if there was a relation it was likely to be a benevolent one.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She

• Being that can be understood is language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

• Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Improvement

• It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.

  

  Larry Wall

• If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Judge

• If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• Young And Wired, Set To explode in the heat.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• I think that fate has a really good sense of humor, ... We had come from Toronto where people had given us a standing ovation, and the public screening had gone really well, but then afterward you hear, well, the press -- there was a less adoring reaction.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Good
  • Fate

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

  

  Hattie McDaniel
  • Picture industry
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

• Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Different

• Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Money
  • Surprise
  • Root

• When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

  

  Eric Heiden