Ashton Eaton Quotes
I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.
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Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.
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It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to a certain extent, but not as feared by Christians. Freethought has never said pull down your churches, burn up your creeds, crucify your savior or reject your god. No one ever knew a Freethinker to try to make laws to control people. All their efforts have been the other way, trying to tear down laws already made which control by "Thou shalt" and "thou shalt not."
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I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.
