Ashton Eaton Quotes
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom's! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.
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Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
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I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Acheson 'never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service.'
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My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.
