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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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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One of the greatest snares is the number of good things we might do. Jesus Christ never did the good things He might have done, He did everything He ought to do because He had His eye fixed on His Father's will and He sacrificed Himself for His Father.
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The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
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One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
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People love stories. They need stories.
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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.
