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 UCI have to make the decision to put in rules into women's cycling that they have in men's cycling: you know, like a minimum budget to run a women's team and that sort of thing so that it becomes more professional.
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Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
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If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.
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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.
