Ashton Eaton Quotes
What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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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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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.
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The nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
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I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
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What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.
