Ashton Eaton Quotes
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming to create.
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Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began. It remains the - the best and the most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence - and then breed mistrust. We have more work to do. We need better training to live up to the values and the principles of community policing.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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Reporter: Could you be clear about your practicing habits since we can't see you practice?
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To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
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I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.
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Comfort and indolence are cronies.
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A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.
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I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.
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The decathlon is exclusive company.
