Ashton Eaton Quotes
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
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In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
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When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
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Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.
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I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.
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Light in tone, the novel Murphy is Beckett’s response to the therapeutic orthodoxy that the patient should learn to engage with the larger world on the world’s terms.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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In spite of everything, I shall rise again
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.
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If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.