Ashton Eaton Quotes
It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.
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Love is more than one thing.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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It's all really nice to have my pretend Secret Service people paying me respect, but the moment I walk in the door, it's back to being 'Mom.'
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I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.
