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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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've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
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I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.
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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.
