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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Insults are the business of the court.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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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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There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.
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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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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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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.
