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 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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I grew up with Bond.
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There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
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Duesberg is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.
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Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.
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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.
