Ashton Eaton Quotes
When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.Ashton Eaton
Quotes to Explore
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
Irvin Kershner -
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
Manolo Blahnik -
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman -
Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
Kara DioGuardi -
I've been things and seen places.
Mae West
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
Caitlin Stasey -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler -
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Ralph Nader -
Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
Hamid Karzai -
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
Orison Swett Marden
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves Behar -
The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
Dan Quinn -
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott -
You were born as the one you are.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
Lance Gross
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At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
Pardis Sabeti -
I had to work with a psychiatrist.
Felix Baumgartner -
'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
Octavia E. Butler -
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
Bob Barr -
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes -
When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.
Ashton Eaton