Ashton Eaton Quotes
From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.
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I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'
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Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.
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Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
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From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
