Ashton Eaton Quotes
The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.
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I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.
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The questions to ask are, why was the decathlon so popular before, and what happened to make it fade? I notice a lot of things in general tend to follow that up-and-down trend.
