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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I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
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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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In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.
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I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.
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You see the music videos and the bling and the cars, but all of that goes home at the end of the shoot. They make nothing because there's less and less money in the music industry.
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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
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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.
