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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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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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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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.
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After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.
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'You asking me the way?' 'Yes,' I said, 'since I can't find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!' said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.
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I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
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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.
