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.
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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.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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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.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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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.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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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.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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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.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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We are here to entertain and ultimately put smiles on people's faces.
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If my music can change someone's mood for the better even a little bit, that's amazing.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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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.'
