Ashton Eaton Quotes

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

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• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • May
  • Man

• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Three

• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Pardon
  • Glowing
  • Adjust

• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Step

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Doing

• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • You
  • Style

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Mistakes

• I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Start
  • Make
  • Come

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Remember

• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

  

  Zelda Popkin
  • War
  • Earth
  • Hate

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!"

  

  Al Pacino
  • Help
  • Writers
  • Register

• Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

  

  Ashton Eaton
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