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

• 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

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

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Judge

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

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • Support
  • Drunk

• I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Dog
  • Sick

• Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Lies

• What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

  

  Bennet Omalu

• I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Power

• If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

  

  Brian Clough

• Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

  

  Jane Campion

• But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

  

  Peter Sarsgaard
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

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

  

  Eric Heiden